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Professor Robin Baker OBE

Professor Robin Baker OBE. Director & CEO Ravensbourne. The growing importance of Technical and Vocational Training to support industry growth. Who are we?. A small specialist HE institution design & digital media Digital Conservatoire. 2000 students Pre-degree Undergraduate

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Professor Robin Baker OBE

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  1. Professor Robin Baker OBE Director & CEO Ravensbourne The growing importance of Technical and Vocational Training to support industry growth

  2. Who are we? A small specialist HE institution design & digital media Digital Conservatoire 2000 students Pre-degree Undergraduate Postgraduate Emphasis enterprise and innovation (15% increase in applications last year)

  3. the challenge to all of us High level skills – the skills associated with HE are essential to the economy and the individual Key competitor countries have a higher proportion of of their adult workforce with high level skills www.rave.ac.uk 2 billion people in China and India with 5 million graduates a year – we have to compete with high level skills

  4. www.rave.ac.uk Rethinking High Level skills because Need to use information technology, including the internet to develop high level skills Higher education needs to own this development We cant compete in low level skills

  5. www.rave.ac.uk Rethinking High Level skills because We need a thinking workforce working intelligently –outside our preoccupation with degrees Commercial Training Incubation/accelerator

  6. www.rave.ac.uk Digital Consultancy

  7. £75million private and public investment

  8. Greenwich Peninsula

  9. vocational programmes off quota www.rave.ac.uk . Projects and Event Overseas development Digital consultancy Incubation

  10. vocational programmes off quota www.rave.ac.uk Vocational offer projects and events (Mozilla Ogilvy, Barclays, You Tube) arising from the new location and building. Overseas Development with projects arising from the new location and building together with the digital expertise that has been grown in our core business. Working in Kazakhstan, Nigeria and Kenya New Business 4 – Incubation 100 incubating companies with support from European programme

  11. vocational programmes off quota Digital consultancy PM ‘s Tech city Advisory Board 9 month rolling programme coding and Life Skills for the Creative Activities and support of GLA Growing Places Fund a Design/Manufacturer Digital Innovation Support Centre www.rave.ac.uk Incubation 100 incubating companies with support from European programme

  12. Thank you for your time

  13. www.rave.ac.uk r.baker@rave.ac.uk Professor Robin Baker OBE Director & CEO Ravensbourne Please feel free to ask me questions

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