Our founder Alex was privileged to be invited to the T-Level launch event the other night at The Studio Liverpool / Liverpool Life Sciences UTC to hear about their plans for these new courses.
Here, he is sharing his experience:
I can’t express my enthusiasm about what they are doing here.
We desperately need educationalists to engage with business and industry to ensure that the next generation of engineers and scientists are equipped with the right skills to be successful in their careers and to contribute to economic success for Liverpool and indeed the entire country.
These educationalists GET IT. We need courses that reflect what we are doing NOW not what we were doing twenty years ago. We need students to understand HOW TO LEARN as they are going to spend their entire lives learning. And we desperately need them to understand HOW TO PROBLEM SOLVE which is so important and is sadly lacking from so many school and university courses.
I am thoroughly supportive of engaging commercial business to support educational institutions, whether as STEM Ambassadors, through social mobility programmes such as those offered by The Social Mobility Foundation, supporting educationalists through the British Computer Society TEALS programme, mentoring, or engaging with employer lead projects.
I also very much look forward to engaging with Liverpool John Moores University LJMU Student Futures on these issues and particularly what can be done to work in collaboration between SMEs and universities on Degree Apprenticeships. Great to talk with you about this Tony Walker and I look forward to continuing the conversation.
Thanks to Enda Carey and Daniel Howard for the excellent evening. I was blown away by the quality of your graduate students, able at such a young age to stand up and present in front of a roomful of older people in such a professional manner. More power to everything you are doing here!