EQUAL - High Road

High Road

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Partnership information

Description

Background

The rationale behind the DP is that far too many people of working age still miss out on learning opportunities and life chances. There is still a gap between the education and skills rich and skills poor. Those who leave school with the lowest qualifications are least likely to receive learning opportunities in adult life, and gender, disability, ethnic origin all impact to further restrict opportunity.

The work of the DP has been focusing on ways of increasing participation in purposeful learning to support productivity growth as well as enhancing job satisfaction, progression and rewards.

Aims

The project has been supporting innovative ways to promote and facilitate equal opportunities in workplace learning and empower learners to gain the skills they require to enhance career progression. The aim reflects this and is to develop partnerships, tools and structures which help move people from welfare into sustainable productive work and help adults in employment progress from low to higher-skilled work.

Objectives

The objectives are to: develop the capacity of union and community/equal opportunity representatives to contribute to local, regional and sectoral strategies which combine achieving high growth with opportunities for all.

develop tools and products to support a learning/skills development continuum, including better linking of pre-entry and in-work learning
develop tools/products to enable the target groups to take charge of their own learning
develop a structure, including via the unionlearn brand, to enable better provision of inclusive and progressive workplace learning
test elements of the new products and structures at regional level
mainstream the new products and structures
Target Groups

The target groups include:
- low skilled people in work
- those at risk through change at work
- those who face barriers to getting sustainable and rewarding employment.

Round

Round 1 to Round 2

The TUC was the lead partner of the Round 1 ‘Building Opportunities through Workplace Learning’ DP. From this work it was established that the union academy, unionlearn, would provide a framework for the current project.

Lead partner

Trades Union Congress
www.tuc.org.uk

Core partners

The Age Employment Network - TAEN, Campaign for Learning, Learning and Skills Council National Office, Scottish Trade Union Congress, The Robert Gordon University, The Scarman Trust, TUC Educational Trust, Ufi/learndirect, Wales TUC

Transnational partnerships

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Contact

Joe Fearnehough, Trades Union Congress,

End-dates

Action 2: 31 March 2008
Action 3: 31 March 2008

Equal theme

Adaptability to work

Origins

A number of key national partners have come together to address inequalities in access to jobs and work-based training, where low skills are still a predicator of inactivity. The Employment Rate for those holding Level 4 qualifications is 86.5%; whereas the rate for those with no qualifications is 50.1%. The partnership also seeks to address lack of access to work based learning whereby those without qualifications are six times less likely to receive training.

The range of partners in Great Britain working with the 'High Road ' project reflects the importance and status of the work and the potential to influence policy and implementation on learning and skills nationally through raising the ambition for skills by strengthening the capacity of union and community/equality representatives to shape local, regional and sector strategies.

Beneficiaries

BME groups, Employed in large firms, Jobseekers with low basic skills, Labour market returnees, Refugees
Total beneficiaries: 30000

Intended impact/ sustainability

Both the ‘high road’ planning tools and the unionlearn brand are being mainstreamed. Unionlearn is playing an important role in mainstreaming new products to support wider access to learning/progression developed through the DP. The High Road project is playing an important role in supporting the establishment of unionlearn and the Scottish TUC work to create a Union Academy in Scotland.

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Process/National

Union connection means DP has national influence in all areas.

Policy/National

The range of partners working with the 'High Road ' project reflects the importance and status of the work and the potential to influence policy and implementation on learning and skills nationally. Partners include the STUC, the national Learning and Skills Council, Ufi, the Scarman Trust, the Campaign for Learning, NIACE, Robert Gordon University, Disability Champions@ Work, Marchmont (University of Exeter), TAEN (The Age Employment Network) and the Open Learning Project.

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CAMPAIGN FOR LEARNING .

DEAL The TUC is working with partner organisations within its Diversity, Equality and Access to Learning (DEAL) partnership. DEAL is a transnational partnership