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Ride the Wave - Wider Key Skills Framework

Ride the Wave is fully funded by the Wider Key Skills Framework which offers a secure (until 2012) funding route. In addition the programme involves local businesses of all sizes who interact with the students in a professional manner at a ratio of 1:7 and helps to build and widen employer engagement. The students gain real workplace skills coupled to greater motivation and confidence. Indeed Ride the Wave has been proven to increase student retention.

If you would like to know more about Ride the Wave then please contact me James Lott on 0845 300 8895 or review our website at www.widerkeyskills.co.uk

Effective presentation skills
01/07/08 The effective presentation skills learned during wider key skills study are directly transferable, helping young people to be better suited to the demands of the modern business environment.

Widening participation
25/06/08 Widening participation in learning helps students to achieve and succeed. Students who participate more readily in their education feel more engaged and have a greater sense of confidence which they are then likely to carry forward into their working lives as adults.

Enterprise
15/06/08 Adding structured wider key skills learning to a young person’s education equips them for enterprise and helps them to actively engage with their community. Wider key skills will enable a young person to work with others more effectively, tackle problem solving more efficiently and improve their own learning and performance. These skills will stay with them for life.

Communication skills
29/04/08 Good communication skills are crucial. The ability to communicate clearly and effectively marks the difference between an employable graduate with career potential and one who is unable to function well in the workplace and in social settings. Communication skills are just one part of wider key skills learning and combine with other skills to give young people the best possible start in their working life.

Every Child Matters
22/04/08 Every Child Matters (ECM) is a government programme which focuses on improving and maintaining the wellbeing of all children up to the age of 19. Its multi-agency approach aims to unite organisations and individuals including schools and colleges, social workers, health professionals and the police so that better support can be offered to young people.

Wider key skills
06/05/08 Teaching wider key skills in schools, colleges and higher education establishments has never been more important. Wider key skills turn students into enterprising, employable graduates who are ready to engage with today’s working environments. The government’s Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) has made funding available to help education establishments provide wider key skills training to students.

Government funded training
25/03/08 BERR announced this week an extra £30 million funding for FE and Primary schools. Details of how the cake will be divided are as yet not clear but without doubt this funding is overdue. However, the danger, as with the enterprise entitlement in secondary schools is that with very little guidance on how to spend the money coupled with having to spread it extremely thinly across large numbers of students, its effectiveness can be limited.