“Our skills agenda should focus on producing
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business-knowledgeable IT people and IT
knowledgeable business people.”
Bill Thomas, President of Europe, EDS
Sector Qualifications & Learning Strategy “Microsoft is pleased to work with e-skills UK
Ensuring that learning and qualifications meet
to help the UK education system keep pace
employers’ needs is a key role of e-skills UK. The
with global technology trends. The work
principles for qualifications reform have been set out
e-skills UK has done to enable IT industry
in the Sector Qualifications and Learning Strategy for
qualifications to be recognised within the
IT & Telecoms, covering both ‘professional’ and ‘user’
national system will be a significant help to
qualifications and learning.
both employers and learners.”
The strategy puts employers at the heart of a flexible
Terry Killer, Microsoft
framework for recognising individual achievement
and developing economically valuable skills. For
“The Qualifications and Curriculum Authority
example, it will ensure that only qualifications and
believes that it is essential to work closely with
learning of value to employers or learners are eligible
e-skills UK to ensure that qualifications meet
for public funding.
the needs of employers and individuals.”
Supporting the Sector Qualifications and Learning
Mary Curnock Cook, Qualifications & Skills, QCA
Strategy, e-skills UK has worked with employers
and partners, including: BCS, Intellect and NCC, to
“LSC North East has been working closely with
create e-skills PROCOM, the training framework for
e-skills UK to help reform qualifications. The
the IT profession. PROCOM provides the framework
combination of more flexible qualifications and
for organising employer-valued qualifications and
a new, bite-sized, approach to funding within
learning by the disciplines of the IT profession. Built
the recent trials of the Qualifications and Credit
on IT professional National Occupational Standards,
Framework meant that training providers were
PROCOM covers the needs of seven broad
able to respond much better to the needs of
disciplines at five levels of progression, incorporating
employers in the region.”
technical, business and personal skills. David Gallagher, LSC North East
This structure enables employers to plan learning
and development based on a job role defined using
“There is a growing need for structured
the Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA)
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,
development programmes for IT professionals,
or on a self assessment of needs.
particularly in the light of offshoring and its
impact on the UK’s IT skills ladder… PROCOM
More information is available at www.e-skills.com/ will help organisations to plan and align
qualifications development programmes and qualifications
to an agreed common framework.”
David Clarke, CEO, British Computer Society
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