Staff Development (4d)
Work with partner participants on specific staff development related to delivery of part-time, flexible provision.
Foundation Degrees at Flybe
Flybe, the airline based at Exeter Airport, is busy developing a lifelong learning academy at Exeter. Along with other high profile enterprises, they already have a new 14-19 Diploma and now, in a joint venture with the Higher Level Skills Pathfinder (HLSP), the SWLLN, the Universities of Exeter, Plymouth, and the West of England, plus Exeter College, they are introducing a range of FDs (in Leadership and Management, Airside Operations, and Aircraft Maintenance). Ian Tame, seconded from his SWLLN post at the University of Exeter, is leading the developments. Flybe has its own staff development team, plus a secondee from Exeter College, to identify key employees who could benefit from the courses under development. The company’s long term aim is to create an Academy that can meet the needs of the wider UK airline industry.
Work Based Learning and APEL
recurrent themes stemming from employers and employees, and the intelligence gathered from partners’ educational institutions, comprise: Continuing Professional Development (CPD), bite-size (and flexible) delivery entailing much work-based or at least work-related academic activity. The corollary to these is APEL and as the SWLLN meets with more professionals around the sub-region, it is clear that they, the potential new students, expect their experiential learning to be recognised and accredited. Similarly, part-time, in work or volunteering learners, will be likely to seek part-time and work-based or work-related Honours degree opportunities once they have qualified at HE Certificate and Intermediate levels. The SWLLN is currently working with 13 institutions to explore how this might be done constituting a cross-cutting project in its own right.
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