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CBS Departmental Briefing

February 2024

Annual Operating Plan

• Review of existing provision and planning for this year and beyond

• Key Areas of Focus

  • Curriculum Pathways

  • Performance – targets, actions and monitoring

  • Quality - compliance and improvement

  • Widening range of provision – All Age Apprenticeships, Traineeship, Online delivery

  • Financial – course hours, staff deployment, HE fees, income from operations.

Curriculum Pathways inc Gold

Current Dept Performance

Retention Vs Achievement - https://forms.office.com/e/93t2h4VXjQ

• Which is more important ?

  • Retention or Achievement ?

• Should a student finish a programme unable to achieve ?

• College Development Plan - Aim 3

  • KPI 3.2 - To increase FE retention rates from 90% in 2022-23 to 90.1% in 2023-24 academic year

  • KPI 3.3 - To increase FE achievement rates from 88.1% in 2022-23 to 88.2% in 2023-24 academic year.

  • KPI 3.4 - To increase HE in FE retention rates from 89.7% in 2022-23 to 89.8% in 2023-24 academic year.

  • KPI 3.5 - To increase HE in FE achievement rates from 89.4% in 2022-23 to 89.5 in 2023-24 academic year.

• Responses

Contributors to success

Current Dept Performance – FE FT

Student Voice – QDP Survey

• CBS Dept Overview

• All Depts Summary

Lost Learning Support

• Dept has applied for extra money for lost learning support to address interruptions to learning.

• Progress reviews have helped to identify students who would benefit from additional support.

• Expressions of interest will be sought from staff

• Examples could include:-

1) Skills development

2) Assignment support / Study Skills / Exam revision

3) A combination of 1 & 2

Traineeship 2023/24

• Requirements for full achievement of Diploma

  • Vocational Qualification

  • Transversal Skills Certificate

  • Work placement hours complete

  • Essential Skills (if required)

• Exam boards will be scheduled for end of semester 2, dates TBC

Looking Forward – Essential Skills update 2024/25

• ES is an integral part of the student’s journey in SWC.

• College is reviewing ES at present to include

  • Delivery

  • Shared responsibility between Main Dept and Servicing Dept

  • Coding as additionality to provide course level results.

Looking Forward - Traineeship update 2024/25

• Beauty & Nail Services – Deep Reform

• Barbering – Deep Reform

• Business & Admin – Deep Reform

• H and T Team Member – revised and now 1 year model

• It is proposed that if deep reform is not complete by end April 24, the area will revert to “damp” reform for introduction in Sept 24.

• Further Briefings and support in Semester 2 to include Blueprint requirements and integration of T Skills.

Looking Forward - College Data Project

• Recently Launched

• Strand 1 – Data collection and verification – BMcI

• Strand 2 – Data reporting - CE

• Strand 2 objectives

  • Stakeholder needs identified

  • Review of Sector best Practice

  • Prioritisation of needs

  • Production of reports

Power BI Example

Departmental engagement

• Plans for later in the year

• Departmental day – (face to face on single site)

• Campus based sessions – (face to face, on each site)

• Curriculum based sessions – (face to face, multi site)

• https://forms.office.com/e/c2u4MkrMTt

• Responses