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      ‘Employers at the heart of the system’: whose system is it anyway?

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          Education and skills policy since the 1970s have exhorted employers to put themselves at the ‘heart of the system’, to engage voluntarily with colleges and other providers, in a range of roles and activities, some of which may be beyond their competence and experience. However, employers do have an important role to play, but that role should be clearly defined and directed towards those areas where their expertise and experience can be optimally deployed. To function effectively, a system requires partnership between a range of actors – learners, providers, local communities, businesses and voluntary organisations. Contributions and expectations, all of which are important, require coordination and management. It is argued that colleges are well placed to act as ‘anchor institutions’ for bringing together local partners. This article provides a practical example of how one large general further education college fulfils this role.

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                Journal
                LRE
                London Review of Education
                Lond. Rev. Educ.
                UCL Press
                1474-8479
                17 August 2022
                : 20
                : 1
                : 28
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Education Studies, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
                [2 ]BMet (Birmingham Metropolitan College), Birmingham, UK
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                https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9745-7626
                Article
                LRE-20-28
                10.14324/LRE.20.1.28
                abff1f44-6fc7-4226-b78e-1f770bd0582c
                © 2022, Prue Huddleston and Suzie Branch-Haddow.

                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY) 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited • DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/LRE.20.1.28.

                History
                : 18 October 2021
                : 09 May 2022
                Page count
                Pages: 11
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                Huddleston, P. and Branch-Haddow, S. (2022) ‘‘Employers at the heart of the system’: whose system is it anyway?’. London Review of Education, 20 ( 1), 28. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/LRE.20.1.28.

                Education,Assessment, Evaluation & Research methods,Educational research & Statistics,General education
                partnerships,stakeholder engagement,local economy,responsiveness,education and employers

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