DEBATE SKILLS By Ged Henderson IN ASSOCIATION WITH:
PRESENT:
Richard Slater, Lancashire Business View (Chair) John Boys, BE Boys Morag Davies, Nelson & Colne College Paula Gill, North West Aerospace Alliance Kerry Harrison, Lancashire Skills & Employment Hub Richard Lee, Seriun Pam Pinder, ELE Advanced Technologies Morgan Rothwell, D&M Creative Charlotte Scheffmann, Nelson and Colne College
HOW TO NAVIGATE THE SKILLS JOURNEY
We brought our expert panel, including business owners, sector leaders and skills providers to Nelson and Colne College, to talk about how the skills and education landscape is evolving with the introduction of Higher Technical Qualifications (HTQs )and what opportunities and challenges that brings
Higher Technical Qualifications or HTQs – what are they, are they valued by employers and how do they fit in with business?
MD: The education sector has gone through a huge amount of change in recent years and we can all agree that it’s been too complex.
Employers have told us that there are too many qualifications. They don’t understand what they are, and especially in the technical arena there were thousands of qualifications that were all doing very similar things,
There was an issue around the credibility and quality of those qualifications. The last government undertook a review and decided it was going to simplify the landscape, reduce the number of qualifications and align
qualifications at different levels. We now have new apprenticeship standards, which lay out what those knowledge, skills and behaviours are.
We have T Levels, which are built around those occupational standards as well and then we’ve
a much more simplified landscape which was greatly needed.
CS: HTQs are HNCs and HNDs, foundation degrees. The government wanted to stop the confusion and update qualifications. The demand was there, we need more people
Employers want to upskill their workforce and
sending them off to do a three-year full-time year degree is not really going to happen
got HTQs which are at level 4 and level 5 and, again, are constructed around those core knowledge skills and behaviours.
There’s a real sense of consistency and
who are qualified at level 4 and 5 with higher technical skills that really reflect what’s going on currently in the employment market.
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