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Getting your options right
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Martin Rosner Head of Mergers and HR
This is the time for the college to have a cool, calm look at the options but, in many cases, there is no simple solution
When ‘going it alone’ is no longer viable
Independence
Colleges in financial difficulty face huge problems in deciding how to escape from the downward spiral of fewer students and less income, and all too rapidly reach the point where ‘going it alone’ is no longer a viable option.
Many colleges will wish to retain their independence despite the difficult financial climate. If this is the case, they could consider reducing costs by working with an organisation that provides shared services and taking advantage of the economies of scale that come from this. By outsourcing back-office services such as finance and HR, the college is able to concentrate its time (and resources) on the key task of delivering high quality teaching and learning.
At that stage, the pressure on the Principal and Board of Governors can be enormous. This pressure is then multiplied if Ofsted come in and find the provision to be less than satisfactory on top of the unsatisfactory financial state of affairs. Who can the college turn to? Predatory colleges will be ‘sniffing around’, the Skills Funding Agency will be looking for a solution and, before long, a team of consultants will be in the college looking at options… and there is still a college to run, learners to support and staff to keep on board. This is the time for the college to have a cool, calm look at the options but, in many cases, there is no simple solution. The range of options is growing, with the FE sector being ‘freed up’ to allow other bodies to run, or assist with running, colleges but, first, the college needs to be clear about its own priorities and to decide what is right for the learners and communities that it serves. Without a clear strategy and objectives, it becomes much more difficult to make the right decision.
Making learning work in FE A collection of short articles and case studies
There are other options that don’t result in the college losing its independence, such as collaboration with other colleges or a College Federation. A collaborative arrangement can be flexible and in the area of curriculum, for example, highly beneficial to all parties, but it is generally unable to assist in dealing with serious underlying financial difficulties. Decision making can be complex and there is, of course, the constant risk that one of the parties might not agree with the decisions and wish to withdraw. The concept of a College Federation is untried within FE but is beginning to be considered appropriate. Under this model, a company is set up to run the college in difficulty, which benefits from a core of central services such as finance, MIS or HR. An alternative version would be the college working with a private-sector or quasi private-sector organisation in a joint venture with specific aims.
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All you ever wanted to know about learning and teaching But were too cool to askUnlocking thoughts and opinions
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All you ever wanted to know about learning and teaching
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A former colleague of mine, Michael Paffard, went into a comprehensive school in Stoke-on-Trent to observe a student teacher take a class of 16 year olds for English. The student turned to the class and asked them to take out their poetry books. As Michael made his way to the back of the class, he heard one student turn to his mate and whisper:
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‘English poetry! Hey nonny no and ****ing daffodils!’
I’d like to begin by going back briefly over some of the main points made in the previous chapter. First, there are at least two main ways of looking at learning. It can be seen as a means of acquiring knowledge, skills and qualifications (learning as acquisition). It can also be viewed as a means of becoming a skilled and respected practitioner (learning as participation). The first is about having, possessing and succeeding; the second is about taking part, experiencing and interacting with others. The first approach is the dominant one, but you need both models to understand all that learning can do for you. (See Sfard, 1998 for more details.)
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Learning can be seen as a means of acquiring knowledge, skills and qualifications. It can also be viewed as a means of becoming a skilled and respected practitioner
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Second, I compared the ‘formal’ learning you do in classrooms with the ‘informal’ learning you carry out in all the other parts of your life with your friends and family. Informal learning is not an optional extra but one of the main factors that shapes what kind of a human being you become; and so I suggested that you should make the most of the social, sporting and cultural life at college because you will pick up important skills and knowledge that are not part of the formal curriculum. Third, I argued that you need to develop a critical intelligence, or what I prefer to call the ability to detect bullshit, to help you challenge the absurd hype of advertisers, the pretentious promises of politicians, the latest buzzword in education and the sweeping claims of researchers like me. Fourth, vocational education is a confusing, ever-changing jungle of qualifications, courses and different pathways, all of which differ markedly in status and economic outcome. So you need the help of impartial career guidance and you also need to know which questions to ask. I now want to include something more positive in this chapter about learning by discussing: ●
surface, deep and strategic approaches to learning
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and what separates the best from the rest.
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Getting your options right
Part of LSN
Martin Rosner Head of Mergers and HR
This is the time for the college to have a cool, calm look at the options but, in many cases, there is no simple solution
When ‘going it alone’ is no longer viable
Independence
Colleges in financial difficulty face huge problems in deciding how to escape from the downward spiral of fewer students and less income, and all too rapidly reach the point where ‘going it alone’ is no longer a viable option.
Many colleges will wish to retain their independence despite the difficult financial climate. If this is the case, they could consider reducing costs by working with an organisation that provides shared services and taking advantage of the economies of scale that come from this. By outsourcing back-office services such as finance and HR, the college is able to concentrate its time (and resources) on the key task of delivering high quality teaching and learning.
At that stage, the pressure on the Principal and Board of Governors can be enormous. This pressure is then multiplied if Ofsted come in and find the provision to be less than satisfactory on top of the unsatisfactory financial state of affairs. Who can the college turn to? Predatory colleges will be ‘sniffing around’, the Skills Funding Agency will be looking for a solution and, before long, a team of consultants will be in the college looking at options… and there is still a college to run, learners to support and staff to keep on board. This is the time for the college to have a cool, calm look at the options but, in many cases, there is no simple solution. The range of options is growing, with the FE sector being ‘freed up’ to allow other bodies to run, or assist with running, colleges but, first, the college needs to be clear about its own priorities and to decide what is right for the learners and communities that it serves. Without a clear strategy and objectives, it becomes much more difficult to make the right decision.
Making learning work in FE A collection of short articles and case studies
There are other options that don’t result in the college losing its independence, such as collaboration with other colleges or a College Federation. A collaborative arrangement can be flexible and in the area of curriculum, for example, highly beneficial to all parties, but it is generally unable to assist in dealing with serious underlying financial difficulties. Decision making can be complex and there is, of course, the constant risk that one of the parties might not agree with the decisions and wish to withdraw. The concept of a College Federation is untried within FE but is beginning to be considered appropriate. Under this model, a company is set up to run the college in difficulty, which benefits from a core of central services such as finance, MIS or HR. An alternative version would be the college working with a private-sector or quasi private-sector organisation in a joint venture with specific aims.
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This section will advise you on how to communicate well with and understand the autistic people you support so that you and they will benefit from this learning.
What is Autism? There are lots of different ways of describing and defining autism. Over the years it has been wrongly thought of as a psychosis, a set of behaviours reacting to childhood trauma, withdrawal due to a ‘refrigerator mother’ and more.
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Nowadays, autism is widely understood to be a brain difference with a genetic cause and environmental triggers which affects people in different ways. The National Autistic Society say the autism is, ‘A lifelong developmental disability affecting social and communication skills’. People with autism have said that the world, to them, is ‘a mass of people, places and events which they struggle to make sense of, and which can cause them considerable anxiety’. (National Autistic Society)
Find information about autistic people on the news, in magazines and on the internet, what do you think about the way it is reported? Write about it in ‘my stories’
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Autism affects the way that people communicate, understand social cues and form relationships. Different autistic people need different kinds of support. Getting to know the autistic person or people you support well and familiarising yourself with their person centred plan will help you to understand their support needs.
Autistic communication Autistic people communicate and interact with people and with the world around them differently to people who are not autistic. Autistic people can find it difficult to make sense of other people because they can struggle to understand all of the different and complex ways that people communicate.
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