The Energy & Efficiency
Industrial Partnership
Employer-led Assessment
Barry Brooks
Strategic Adviser
barry.brooks@euskills.co.uk
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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Industrial Partnership Council Board
Accountable for shaping the Partnership’s overarching strategy and objectives in the
context of skills, sustainability and other issues facing the Partnership’s sectors.
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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
Simplifying a complex
system
Pioneering new
approaches to
development, delivery
and assessment
Working together for a
better future
Meeting business needs
Investment in future
talent
Doing the right thing
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Overview of the programme
Employer Ownership Pilot
Attract
Develop
Assure
Sector Attractiveness
Youth Entrant Programmes
Independent Quality Board
Recruitment
Flexible Apprenticeships
- Trailblazers
Quality Framework and
Approval process
Diversity, Youth,
Experienced, Leadership
Experienced Talent – up-skilling,
re-skilling and leadership
Independent Assessment
Job Creation and Talent Retention Pool for the Industry
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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:
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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
Entrant
Improver
Government requirements
Job/employer requirements
Professional Body requirements
Apprentice requirements
• Government requirements
• Employer requirements
• Professional Body requirements
• Entrant requirements
Talent Pool
New
•
•
•
•
• Sector requirements
• Employer requirements
• Professional Body Requirements
• Employee requirements
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Blue-print for the new NOS
Occupation
Title
Occupation
Definition
Occupation
Description
Occupation
Knowledge
& Skills
Occupation
Attitudes &
Behaviours
• An occupation title that secures universal understanding and authenticity.
• A brief overview of the occupation that specifies the observable performance of a
competent and effective practitioner.
• The core functions of a competent and effective practitioner.
• 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.
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In the real world of work...
Apprenticeship
(group award)
Technical
Certificate
Trade Tests
National
Vocational
Qualification
Functional
Skills
Authorisation Levels
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Merit:
Comparative
(Better)
Performance
Pass:
Positive
(Good)
Performance
Enhanced performance through:
Skills and Knowledge
Attitudes
Behaviours
Competent:
Cognitive, Functional, Methodological, Personal
Industry-led amplification & exemplification
Performance recognised by authorisation levels
Distinction:
Superlative
(Best)
Performance
Differentiating Performance
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Knowledge:
•Factual
•Theoretical
Competence:
Trade tests
Autonomy:
Authorisation levels
Skills:
•Cognitive
•Practical
Behaviours:
•Ethical
Learning Outcomes: Competency
accord
Industry-led assessment
•Interpersonal
Assessment Principles and associated sector tolerances
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Continuum for Independent Assessment
Timing and nature of on-programme
assessment potentially employer and/or
sector specific such as current trade tests
25%-30%
On-programme
assessment
On-programme
assessment
On-programme
assessment
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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Formative
&
Summative
Credibility
Integrity
Characteristics of industry-led assessment
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
Trade
Tests
Authorisation
Processes
Workforce
Competence
Competency
Accords
EUS
Register
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Provider Approval
Assessor and Affiliate Training & Approval
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
Quality assurance, audit and control
The Quality Assurance Register
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Establishing reliable independent assessment
Employer A’s
Assessment
Approach
Employer B’s
Assessment
Approach
Employer C’s
Assessment
Approach
Employer D’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
Experts from
Employer A
Experts from
Employer B
Experts from
Employer C
Sector Experts: Assessors; Verifiers; External Verifiers
Assessing
Employees
from
Employer A
Assessing
Employees
from
Employer B
Assessing
Employees
from
Employer 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
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The Energy & Efficiency
Industrial Partnership
Employer-led Assessment
Barry Brooks
Strategic Adviser
barry.brooks@euskills.co.uk