"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones"
John Cage
Davici Consulting offers support and consultancy to education and training institutions relating to widening participation, especially in the context of vocational and work-based learning, such as Apprenticeships.
“..for the future of young people in our economy and for the future of our economy.”
So said Gordon Brown, in May 2004, talking about Apprenticeships. David Fisher has been involved in the promotion of Apprenticeships and the progression of apprentices to higher education, for some years. Apprenticeships are an ideal way for people to learn the skills of a trade while gaining the underpinning academic knowledge to support those skills, and being paid while doing so.
As Davici Consulting, David is now offering his services to organisations to both promote the take-up of Apprenticeships and to ease apprentices’ transition to higher education as part of lifelong learning. For further information on previous and current clients, please go to ‘Clients’.
If you would like to know more about Apprenticeships in Yorkshire and the Humber, including how to get one and the advantages that this route has as a way into higher education, please gowww.apprentice-forward.org.uk. The site also includes a fully searchable database of options for progression for an Advanced Apprentice in the region.
If you would like to know more about the work of West Yorkshire Lifelong Learning Network, please go to www.wylln.ac.uk.
If you would like to know more about the work of Aimhigher in West Yorkshire, please go to www.aimhigher.ac.uk/sites/westyorkshire/home/index.cfm.
Davici Consulting provides bespoke learning to groups of people, including schools, careers services, training providers, further and higher education, on Apprenticeships, the benefits of higher education, and the issues relating to the move from one level to the next.
Davici Consulting is happy to quote for the management of a variety of projects relating to education and training. This can be from information gathering, through the compilation of a fully referenced report through to carrying out agreed actions.
With years of experience in the management of Health and Safety, supported by the NEBOSH Diploma in Health and Safety, Davici Consulting can also provide advice relating to health and safety management, accident investigation and safe systems of work.
Clients
Aimhigher West Yorkshire
Responsible for the management of the Apprenticesgohigher project that aimed to promote progression to higher education to Advanced Apprentices. Among outputs were promotional leaflets, a website (www.apprenticesgohigher.org) and booklets promoting IAG to training providers, and one providing young people with ideas and help in finding an Apprenticeship.
Regional Aimhigher (Yorkshire and the Humber)
Developed a new website (www.apprentice-forward.org.uk), in association with Aimhigher South Yorkshire, to promote Apprenticeships and progression to higher education across the region. The new site also included a fully searchable database of higher-level courses that those with an Advanced Apprenticeship or a vocational qualification could progress to.
Aimhigher South Yorkshire
Responsible for the maintenance of the regional website and its database of courses.
Aimhigher Humberside
Provided training sessions to training providers on their role in the delivery of IAG to apprentices and the value of their progression to higher education.
West Yorkshire Lifelong Learning Network
Commissioned to investigate the support that is offered to former apprentices when they access higher-level education, and then to develop Progression Agreements to make it easier for those learners with non-traditional qualifications to access higher education, with the knowledge that they will be supported through that learning.
University of Bradford
Commissioned to undertake a series of Information, Advice and Guidance (IAG) sessions with learners on vocational education programmes, to raise their awareness of the opportunities for higher education and to promote their progression to top-up degrees where they are currently studying for Foundation Degrees.
Contact Us
Email: david_davici.co.uk
