Please find below a request to all J21 registered businesses from Stuart at the Unversity of Huddersfield. Please read and then fill out the attached link and return to Stuart directly. Many thanks in advance.
Benefits for employers:
Improving Higher Education in the Greater Manchester area
I am writing to you to request your participation in a worthwhile research project for the construction industry in the Greater Manchester area. I appreciate that time is precious for everyone in these testing times. However, your participation will make a significant contribution to the project. My only request is for you to complete the simple questionnaire attached.
Overview of project aims:
- Many companies have job specific training requirements for their employees, which do not sit within existing Higher Education course structures. It is acceptable to say that not all modules taught on degree courses are relevant to employer needs. One of the aims of this project sets out to identify whether the current provision of HE produces suitable graduates for the workplace
- In addition many students, young or mature, accessing HE courses with a NVQ level 3 qualification (craft trades for example) struggle to cope with the rigors of a HE syllabus.
In order to improve this situation Greater Manchester Strategic Alliance is developing a catalogue of construction sector modules that can be delivered as standalone CPD units. These units may be combined to attain a recognised qualification at university level (University certificate, Diploma, Foundation Degree and Honours Degree level).
It is envisaged that this will enable employees and employers to pick and choose modules which are relevant to their training requirements. The benefits for employers are to have a workforce which is strategically trained to fully develop the business needs.
Notes on answering questionnaire:
The questionnaire needs to be completed and sent back by Sunday 15th February 2009
When you have completed the questionnaire please send it to:
s.pryke@hud.ac.uk
or post it to:
Stuart Pryke
University Campus Oldham
Cromwell Street
Oldham
OL1 1BB
Tel: 0161 213 5070
Please do not return to J21 Training & Employment
Finally I would like to thank you for your time, and wish you well for the future
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