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The Energy & Efficiency Industrial Partnership
Employer-led Assessment
Barry BrooksStrategic Adviser
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The policy landscape
Government’s Skills Policies all focus on employer-leadership :
Employer Ownership of Workforce Skills Pilots
Apprenticeship Trailblazers
Gatsby
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Which Sectors are involved?
• Energy Supply/ Efficiency– including gas, power, energy assessment and
installation, housing
• Energy Production/ Distribution/ Transmission– including gas, power and renewables
• Environmental Sustainability – including water, waste management and
recycling
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Accountable for shaping the Partnership’s overarching strategy and objectives in the context of skills, sustainability and other issues facing the Partnership’s sectors.
Industrial Partnership Council Board
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“Together we will take a radical new approach to recruitment and skills.
The Partnership will set the agenda and pioneer new approaches to training development,
delivery and assessment that will yield the skills the sector needs.
By investing in talent the Partnership intends not only to solve its skills shortages,
but also to create jobs and help the whole economy”.
Energy and Efficiency Industrial Partnership
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EEIP’s focus and scope
VISION OUTCOMES
Setting the Skills Agenda
Pioneering new approaches to
development, delivery and assessment
Investment in future talent
Simplifying a complex system
Working together for a better future
Meeting business needs
Doing the right thing
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Overview of the programme
Job Creation and Talent Retention Pool for the Industry
Employer Ownership Pilot
Attract
Flexible Apprenticeships - Trailblazers
Youth Entrant Programmes
Develop Assure
Diversity, Youth, Experienced, Leadership
Sector Attractiveness
Experienced Talent – up-skilling, re-skilling and leadership
Quality Framework and Approval process
Independent Quality Board
Independent Assessment
Recruitment
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The Partnership’s commitments
• Whilst the sector faces large skills challenges we are collectively addressing these by working together
• Our priorities include:– Simplifying a complex system– Working together for a better future– Meeting business needs– Doing the right thing
• Our measures focus activity on:– What we are doing.– How we are doing it.– Are we making the difference needed?
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EEIP - a workforce-wide approach to skills
Apprentice
NewEntrant
Improver
• Government requirements• Job/employer requirements• Professional Body requirements• Apprentice requirements
• Government requirements• Employer requirements• Professional Body requirements• Entrant requirements
• Sector requirements• Employer requirements• Professional Body Requirements• Employee requirements
Talent Pool
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Blue-print for the new NOS
• An occupation title that secures universal understanding and authenticity. Occupation Title
• A brief overview of the occupation that specifies the observable performance of a competent and effective practitioner. Occupation
Definition
• The core functions of a competent and effective practitioner.Occupation Description
• The essential competencies required by a practitioner to undertake the core functions, as well as, where appropriate, what enhanced performance looks like.
• The qualities that an individual must consistently demonstrate to be recognised as an expert practitioner.
Occupation Knowledge
& Skills
Occupation Attitudes & Behaviours
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In the real world of work...
Apprenticeship (group award)
Technical Certificate
National Vocational
Qualification
Functional Skills
Trade Tests Authorisation Levels
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Differentiating Performance
Enhanced performance through:Skills and Knowledge
AttitudesBehaviours
Competent:Cognitive, Functional, Methodological, Personal
Industry-led amplification & exemplification
Performance recognised by authorisation
levels
Dis
tincti
on:
Supe
rlativ
e (B
est)
Perf
orm
ance
Mer
it:
Com
para
tive
(Bett
er)
Perf
orm
ance
Pass
:Po
sitiv
e (G
ood)
Perf
orm
ance
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Industry-led assessment
Knowledge:• Factual• Theoretical
Skills:• Cognitive• Practical
Behaviours: • Ethical• Interpersonal
Lear
ning
Out
com
es: C
ompe
tenc
y ac
cord
Competence:
Trade tests
Autonomy:
Authorisation levels
Assessment Principles and associated sector tolerances
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Continuum for Independent Assessment
End of programme
synoptic assessment:
Enhanced Trade tests;
Authorisation interviews; knowledge
tests
25%-30%
On-programme assessment
On-programme assessment
On-programme assessment
Timing and nature of on-programme assessment potentially employer and/or sector specific such as current trade tests
On-programme assessment + synoptic assessment = competence
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From employer assessment to an employer-led assessment system
• Authentic assessment needs to be valid, reliable, manageable (internal assurance), and
• When the public purse contributes there needs to be general public assurance and confidence around: – Rigour– Comparability across assessment decisions and
outcomes– Comparable over time (so standards of competence
remain consistent)• Ofqual manages this for the supply-driven model of VET• Our approach is to secure a demand-led (employer-led)
model.
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Characteristics of industry-led assessment
ReliabilityValidity
Safety, Security & Confidentiality
StandardsSustainability
Visibility & Transparency
Fitness for Purpose
Cost Efficiency
Formative &
Summative
CredibilityInte
grity
Productivity & Quality
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Why are Energy and Utilities employers excited by independent assessment?
• ‘Own’ assessment mechanisms, processes and procedures
• Streamline assessment of apprenticeships by using trusted industry practice as ‘The’ practice (Trade Tests, Authorisations)
• ‘Own’ occupational standards by sharing IPR through employer-leadership
• Allow qualification market place to develop around customer service and quality of resources and support not assessment and quality assurance
• Strip out duplication and unnecessary service provision (and associated cost) around assessment
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What will employer-led independent assessment look like?
• Develop and ‘own’ occupational standards for employers and the sector
• Provide assurance around employer assessment for businesses of all sizes
• Ensure consistency and comparability in assessment practice across and between employers
• Ensure standards of competence are maintained over time
• Provide public assurance of value and impact of public investment
• Establish a talent pool of competent workers for both asset owners and their supply chains
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Established industry assessment practices
Workforce Competence
Trade Tests
Competency Accords
EUSRegister
Authorisation Processes
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The Quality Assurance Register
Provider Approval
Assessor and Affiliate Training & Approval
Qua
lity
assu
ranc
e, a
udit
and
cont
rol
Standardisation across and between employment settings & standardisation across and between assessor decisions
Collection of data and reporting on performance to include benchmarking & consistency across & between audiences
& constituencies in different contexts and settings
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Establishing reliable independent assessment
Employer B’s Assessment Approach
Employer C’s Assessment Approach
Employer D’s Assessment Approach
Employer A’s Assessment Approach
Approaches to assessment developed and based on established custom and practice within and across the sector with a focus on establishing
comparability and consistency
Robust and consistent application of the assessment approaches across the sector including the supply chain
All successful candidates registered on the EUSR together with agreed levels of authorisation for specified roles within and across different employers
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Assessment Through Peer Review
Sector Experts: Assessors; Verifiers; External Verifiers
Experts fromEmployer B
AssessingEmployees
from Employer B
Assessing Employees
from Employer A
AssessingEmployees
from Employer C
Experts fromEmployer A
Experts fromEmployer C
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The EEIP’s independent assessment
• Increased authenticity and validity in assessment• Streamlined and more efficient and effective
learning and assessment• Increase impact and ROI for employers,
employees and tax-payers• Better quality of service from providers (customer
service and resources focused)• Ensure employer leadership in standards,
assessment and quality assurance• Workforce that is better trained and more flexible
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A radical approach to workforce skills
The EEIP is committed to employer ownership for skills development:• For the stock of their existing workforce• For the flow of young people into their workforce
The EEIP recognises that employer ownership is not without its challenges:
• This is paradigm shift from supply-driven to demand-led• There are many established vested interests in established positions• Employers do not have a tradition of speaking with one voice• Competition rather than collaboration has been the tradition.
By investing in talent the Partnership intends not only to solve its skills shortages, but also to create jobs and help
the whole economy
The Energy & Efficiency Industrial Partnership
Employer-led Assessment
Barry BrooksStrategic Adviser