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The Collaborative Employee Learning Project (University of Sussex)
This project emerged from a perceived need to develop a customer-focused approach to course design with local employers' input. Specifically the aims were i) to develop regional collaborative solutions to extend lifelong learning opportunities to employees in organisations not currently involved in such initiatives by sharing existing good practice, and ii) to expand learning and development opportunities to postgraduate-level work through collaborative partnerships with employers and employees and the two partner universities (Sussex and Southampton).
The methodology employed by the project included a project steering group, an employer network to help identify needs for learning opportunities, regional forums for employers, a database of contacts between the partner organisations, developing and evaluating postgraduate-level courses collaboratively, skills audits of the partner organisations, training individuals to act as mentors, and establishing collaborative employee learning schemes between the partner organisations.
Among the outcomes and outputs achieved by the project are the following:
A number of lessons have been learned during the course of the project and in particular those associated with partnership and collaborative working. These include the importance of pro-active partnership support and understanding of the issues faced by organisations, relationship building, the importance to the project partners of skills auditing and needs analysis, and the need for employers to ensure enabling mechanisms for their staff to study on a part-time basis.
The project's recommendations include the following:
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