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Setting a new vision for employer engagement

How Ignite helped a Further Education College plan to achieve outstanding levels of engagement with employers.

Can you really achieve change in a day?
Yes you can! The day I spent with the senior team at the college was more than enough time to spark new patterns of thinking and introduce a fresh way of doing things.



What was the challenge?
A recent Ofsted audit had recommended that the college could put more focus on employer engagement. They wanted to tackle this quickly and effectively.  The Principal was also keen to explore ways to involve more of her team in creative problem solving.

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Posted August 17, 2010 by Jenny McGregor. Comments (0).
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Giving young people get a say

We ran a workshop for non-adults this week in Harrow.  We were invited by the Borough’s Student Advisory Group to test young people’s views on social cohesion.  This was a slightly different challenge and we needed to use all our engagement skills to ensure two groups of twenty 13-14 year olds really got a voice.  Young people from all the borough’s schools were represented, including special needs schools, and we were grateful for the expertise of teachers who were on hand to help.

Not unsurprisingly, the children had fairly strong views, giving us a fresh perspective on the overall social cohesion challenge.

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