1. Consultation to establish a Guild
for the Learning and Skills Sector
CLOSING DATE: 22 FEBRUARY 2013
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2. Key milestones
• Production of Consultation document by end of
January - Done!
• Formal consultation period 1st – 22nd February
• Implementation plan to BIS by end of March
• FE Guild to start operations August 2013

3. Informing the Consultation Document
• Online survey 404 responses.
• Generally good level of support (50%) - 8% against.
• 69% felt could enhance sector.
• Steering group meetings to discuss critical issues
• Four initial focus groups
• Production of 7 discussion papers
• Meetings with organisations of interest, including HE Academy
• More information on website and blog

4. Consultation Document- covers:
• The landscape
• Top level aims
• What is professionalism
• Remit
• Who Guild is for
• Governance and operational structure
• Funding
• The name!

5. 1
Focus on aspects associated with
professionalism, including defining
workforce qualifications and standards,
continuous professional development,
research into teaching and learning,
sharing best practice and leadership and
management.

6. 2
Have a relatively small executive team
and rely much more on partnership,
commissioning and other forms of cross
sector work to fulfil its mission.

7. 3
Be set up as a Company Limited by
Guarantee, but with very strong sector
involvement in governance and the work
of the Guild, via robust sector direction,
engagement and consultation processes.

8. Possible structure
Legal Members – AoC, AELP +
Advisory/
Consultative Guild Board
Group
Standing
Practitioner Engagement
Committees – 3 or 4

9. 4
Have a guiding principle of covering
everyone working in the sector, although
resource constraints and other factors
might result in there needing to be an
initial focus on teaching and learning
staff and those directly supporting
learner outcomes.

10. 5
Be based on providers in the sector being
part of the Guild, but keep open the
possibility of developing an individual
practitioner recognition scheme in the
future, should the sector decide it would
be valuable.

11. Guild who is it for?
Guild should only cover those Guild should cover
who directly deliver and
support teaching and learning
OR all staff .
and assessment.
Overarching principle - should aim to encompass all staff
Caveats:
• May initially have to concentrate on the teaching, learning, assessing and
direct support staff.
• Not duplicating standards of the other specialist professional bodies - could
signpost and or contextualise them.
Equally: areas such as equality and diversity, new technologies
and customer service relevant to all staff.

12. 6
Adopt a phased approach to funding,
initially based on a direct grant to ensure
a successful initiation and initial
operation of the Guild, but progressively
moving to a levy-based approach.
Further self-funding opportunities could
be considered for later years.

13. Interim arrangements
• Interim Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
recruited by open competition; end-
dated December 2013.
• Initial shadow Board – with phased
migration plan to the permanent Board
by April 2014.
• Interim CEO and shadow Board start to
build the proposed operational
structures.

14. Name – should it be changed?
• Should we change both parts?
• Seems to be consensus that at least change
the FE tag.
• If so what
…college…academy….alliance…institute….or
non specific?
• Learning and Skills instead of FE?

15. Discussion and questions