Artificial intelligence experts at De Montfort University Leicester (DMU) are backing a groundbreaking project that will help shape how skills programs are offered in the future.
The Leicester and Leicestershire Local Skills Improvement Plan (LSIP) initiative will put companies at the heart of skills supply in Leicestershire, while also strengthening ties with local colleges and training providers.
Key Takeaways:
- Artificial intelligence experts from DMU are helping a ground-breaking project that will help determine how skills programs are delivered in the future.
- The Leicester and Leicestershire Local Skills Improvement Plan (LSIP) initiative will put businesses at the center of Leicestershire’s skills supply.
- In addition, the program will improve relationships with local colleges and training facilities.
The institution is one of eight “trailblazer” locations financed by the Department for Education and is led by East Midlands Chamber.
LSIPs are intended to address concerns that employers do not have enough control over the skills offering available in their area and are having difficulty filling skill gaps.
The data from daily surveys sent to organizations in three areas such as logistics, manufacturing, and sports and human health will be analyzed by DMU’s AI team.
Businesses will be required to download a smartphone app that will periodically ask short questions. For up to four weeks, participants will be prompted to complete one or two brief questions every workday.
The results of these fast surveys will be compared to larger data sets to create a real-time picture of what employers need, when they need it, rather than the standard snapshot, which can be months old.
The data will be collected in the first few weeks of 2022 before being combined with other datasets to inform the LSIP, which is expected to be finished by the end of March 2022.
Participants in the pilot will gain exclusive access to current data and trends in their industry, as well as helping to guarantee that skills development meets the needs of their company now and in the future.
The LSIP experiment is part of the UK government’s £65 million Skills Accelerator program, which was announced in January 2021 as part of the Skills for Jobs White Paper.
The goal of the program is to reorganize England’s technical skills system so that it can better meet the needs of the local market and the wider economy.
The East Midlands Chamber’s pilot builds on the success of its Knowledge Transfer Partnership with DMU, which aims to improve the region’s economic data use.
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