The testbed will explore and trial different:

• Delivery models
• Funding models
• Knowledge exchange opportunities 
• Accreditation options
• Provision types
• Co-creation and co-design with business

The partners

Sussex Learning Network, FE Sussex and SCTP are identified as the most appropriate lead organisations for this theme because of their wide-reaching networks. Over the course of the LSIP they will work collaboratively with the following core partners.

‍Our activity

‍‍Through research and analysis, consultation and planning workshops we developed a set of recommended actions which form part of a 3-year action plan for each Framework theme. The overarching recommended actions for Innovation are: 

• Test and trial a knowledge exchange programme to help businesses improve their understanding of the skills needed to meet Net Zero and Climate Change targets, particularly in Land-based and Health & Care.
• Test and trial a modular programme of higher level short courses to develop specialist technical skills to support content creation in HI-End TV sector, Streaming services, Post Production in the Creative and Cultural sector.
• Test and trial a programme of support for aspiring managers/business owners specifically targeted at the Engineering & Manufacturing sectors to address an ageing workforce in leadership roles.
• Test and trial an accessible leadership and management training programme for middle managers in the Visitor and Hospitality sector to address skills gaps.
• Test and trial the use of skills assessments and psychometric testing to develop the employability skills identified as missing by employers.

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View the full action plan here.

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Project News

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LSIF Project: Sussex Centres for Entrepreneurship and Business Leadership

The Local Skills Improvement Fund (LSIF) is designed to enable further education providers across a geographic area to respond collectively to the priorities in the local skills improvement plans (LSIPs) providing investment in the technical skills system to better support the needs of the local labour market and wider economy.

As part of the LISF projects being undertaken by FE Sussex (the consortium of Sussex colleges) they have developed innovatively delivered training and CPD for employers. This is provision that is flexible, responsive, and accessible, and include online courses, events, evening workshops, modular courses, hybrid programmes, webinars, and VR activity.

The colleges involved in the project have developed the provision in response to the LSIP priorities and actions under the Innovation Theme of the Future Skills Sussex Improvement Framework:

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Read more about the Centres for Entrepreneurship and Business Leadership here.