Policy Background

Key Regional Agendas• Business Support

Simplification • esp Partnership• Innovation; I-nets,

Technology Plan; RIS2• Aligning funding• Regeneration, Sustainable

Development

HEFCE Agenda• RAE• HEIF4• Employer Engagement: Co-funding• WP• SSCs

EMUA aims to

•Represent the universities in the East Midlands

•Nurture and stimulate cooperation amongst our members to the benefit of the region•Promote our universities as

essential drivers in the economic, social and cultural development of

the East Midlands

Promoting our region’s universities

Sharing best practice Creating strategic partnerships Facilitating collaboration Influencing strategies Supporting delivery of the RES

EMUA Background

BIS Policy• Innovation Nation• World Class Skills• HEIF• Growth Capped• Phase-out funding for ELQ• Subnational review• Internships!• Denham HE Framework• Tuition Fees

Challenges for EMUA

•Varied, and changing missions of EM HEIs•Willingness of HEIs to share information: perceived & actual competition•Internal communication of EMUA objectives, activity, institutional sign-up within member HEIs•HEI vs. EMUA relationships with regional/national organisations, particularly emda.& HEFCE

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Key Partners & Stakeholders

HEFCEUUKemdaesp PartnershipAlliance of Sector Skills CouncilEMBLSCEMRAGO-EMEMFECPodium (Olympics)

Context for HE Sector

• It’s the economy – stupid!• Rapidly changing policy

landscape. • Application of funding

streams associated with HEIF4, RAE 2008 Employer Engagement

Diversity of HEI missions.

employer engagement & skills group EMUA members coordinate their activities in line with the framework: ‘Developing a Regional Action Plan for Higher Level Skills’• Help HEIs establish employer demand for higher level

skills

• Work with HEFCE and appropriate regional agencies to address the market failure of Train to Gain brokerage for higher level learning

• Support a co-ordinated approach to the development and supply of higher level courses by further developing the relationships with esp Partners, Sector Skills Councils, LLNs, fdf and other appropriate agencies.

KNOWN UNKNOWNS: The demand for higher level skills from businesses November 2008BEYOND KNOWN UNKNOWNS: a further exploration of the demand for higher level skills from businesses January 2009

Innovation & knowledge transfer group The Innovation & Knowledge Transfer Strategy Group seeks to increase levels of innovation within the region.• Providing better access to knowledge and expertise

• Exploiting knowledge through business creation

• Developing the skills for innovation

• Building the space for innovation

• Creating synergy through networking and collaboration

• Growing the learning region

GRADUATE FUTURES: The Impact of the Recession on Graduate Recruitment in the East Midlands: A Review of Expert Opinion, March 2009