2. ColegauCymru Annual Confernce 26 th May Cardiff Ian Rowbory Senior Business Manager

4. PEARSON AT A GLANCE Pearson is an international media company with world-leading businesses in education, business information and consumer publishing. Pearson is the world’s leading learning company, educating and helping people learn throughout their lives. Whether pre- school to high school, early learning to professional certification, Pearson’s textbooks, multimedia learning tools, institutions and testing programmes help to educate more than 100 million people worldwide – more than any other enterprise Chief Executive (PI) John Fallon Chief Executive (NA) Will Ethridge The world famous Penguin brand is the label of quality from novels and classics to cookbooks and much much more – all around the world. Publishing an unrivalled range of fiction and non-fiction, bestsellers and classics, childrens books and illustrated reference treasure chests in over 100 countries Chief Executive: John Makinson Financial Times Group, one of the world’s leading business information companies, provides a broad range of business information and multimedia services to the growing audience of internationally- minded business people Chief Executive: Rona Fairhead

5. Deloitte Pearson Employability Initiative5 Overview Continue the work done under Deloitte’s Employability Programme Extend its reach without compromising on its quality Extend its remit

6. Deloitte Pearson Employability Initiative 6 Pearson will… Work in partnership to provide updated cobranded qualifications meeting the full employability matrix requirements of Asset Skills New Certificate of Employability qualification will be part of the workskills suite and subject to workskills assessment regime

7. Deloitte Pearson Employability Initiative 7 Differences from current work with Deloitte New qualification is part of suite and is open access For registration purposes we do not need to know who is or is not an official Deloitte centre Work internally assessed and subject to lead internal verification

8. Deloitte Pearson Employability Initiative 8 Training Deloitte have accepted model of mixture of face to face, webinars and regular interaction with centres and training hubs. Pearson have undertaken to take over the management of the Deloitte Employability Initiative and the training that Deloitte offer to their centres.

9. Deloitte Pearson Employability Initiative 9 Training continued We would continue to use Deloitte Master trainers and their training hubs as deliverers of training In addition we have proposed a commercial venture offering Deloitte training to the market place

10. Deloitte Pearson Employability Initiative 10 Publishing Store Deloitte resources on a secure site Edit and refresh in partnership with Deloitte

11. City of Bristol Tender – May 9 th 201111 Report on Workskills by Asset Skills ‘Edexcel adopts a personalised approach to their qualifications. Their driving theme is the individual and their journey through education or employment or employment. The generic employability qualifications they offer (Workskills) are aimed at enhancing employability skills i.e the “soft skills” in demand by employers and to encourage career progression.’

12. BTEC Level 2 Award in Employability Skills 9 Credit Award Mandatory units Preparing for an interview Interview skills Self-assessment Effectiveness at work Working in a team Investigating Rights and Responsibilities at work

13. BTEC Level 2 Certificate in Employability Skills 13 Credits Mandatory Units plus any further workskills units

17. Further support ? Email: workskills@edexcel.com Register: www.edexcel.com/workskills www.edexcel.com/workskills Website: www.edexcel.com/workskills City of Bristol Tender – May 9 th 201117