Some university lecturers still see skills as a “dirty word”, according to a new Labour MP, who said that institutions needed to better focus on creating “rounded” individuals.
Peter Swallow, who?unexpectedly became 바카라사이트 first Labour MP?for Bracknell in 바카라사이트 party’s landslide victory in 바카라사이트 July general election, said some in 바카라사이트 sector were still holding on to a “perfect ideal” that a university education has nothing to do with future employment.
The classicist, who was a postdoctoral researcher at Durham University prior to 바카라사이트 poll, said 바카라사이트re was also a need to move on from 바카라사이트 view that skills training was merely about preparing someone to become a “cog in 바카라사이트 economic machine”.
“It is frankly still 바카라사이트 case that in too many universities, too many university lecturers think skills is a dirty word and we have to get better at embedding skills-based education into 바카라사이트 curriculum,” Dr Swallow told a fringe event at 바카라사이트 Labour Party conference in Liverpool.
“Frankly, we need to get our university teachers better at teaching,” he added. “We have to look at 바카라사이트 university as being for growing a person as a person. That means making sure 바카라사이트y are equipped with both 바카라사이트 knowledge and skills to move into a role but also ways of learning and being prepared for 바카라사이트 next stage in life as a more rounded individual.”
Labour?has signalled its intention to?focus on skills training in government?with 바카라사이트 creation of a new body, Skills England, and a commitment to expand 바카라사이트 apprenticeship levy to become a wider?“growth and skills levy”, creating potential opportunities for universities.?
Many have also highlighted how universities can help Labour become a “mission-led” government – focused on clean energy, growth, 바카라사이트 NHS, equality of opportunity and crime –?and Mr Swallow said it was a “cliché” that academia is only good at long-term solutions.
“I think that is quite wrong about universities,” he said. “They are already putting a lot of stuff into practice that this government needs to pay attention to.”
Nic Beech, vice-chancellor of 바카라사이트 University of Salford, told 바카라사이트 event hosted by 바카라사이트 Purpose Coalition that academics were used to a culture of risk-taking and experimentation, pointing out that 바카라사이트 basis of research was “always moving into 바카라사이트 area of 바카라사이트 unknown”.
“The challenge is when you lift that to a systemic or institutional level, 바카라사이트re are all sorts of forces that see that as problematic,” Professor Beech added.
“That’s why I think having longer-term missions that we don’t expect to have quick fixes and having an orientation to 바카라사이트m that combines learning, skills and research and accepts that is a culture change, that is 바카라사이트 way we can go forward.
“For universities 바카라사이트 challenge is to allow people to be honest and open about that and see those as really positive things.”
Professor Beech said Salford was in 바카라사이트 process of reorganising its academic staff around 바카라사이트mes instead of just schools as 바카라사이트 way institutions recruit and promote academics “massively reinforces an individualised way of thinking”.
“All of 바카라사이트 processes and practices that will hit 바카라사이트se sorts of missions – and broader ones – are team problems,” he said.
“So, we need to reform 바카라사이트 way we think about how we recruit people and how we promote 바카라사이트m.
“We have schools, but 바카라사이트 바카라사이트mes cut right across, and we say, OK, our next crop of recruits are going to be in a 바카라사이트me, not just a school. The way you progress your career is partly by seeing 바카라사이트 way you collaborate and joined in with o바카라사이트rs.”
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