University of Derby

University of Derby Corporate

University of Derby Corporate aims to enhance the University of Derby’s capacity for employer engagement and fully exploit its proven flexible frameworks for responsive, customised skills development and lifelong learning.

The project will engage more employers, including those in sectors with no tradition of higher education (HE), through a continuum of opportunities. These opportunities will be designed to develop a highly skilled workforce underpinned by the university’s flexible framework for bespoke and shorter awards.

Specifically, the three complementary objectives of the project are to:

• establish a new business model for employer engagement to result in more HE programmes in partnership with employers
• create a new academic career pathway in employer engagement through establishing 'Workforce Development Fellows'
• create a purpose-built facility for services to employers that meets the standards required by business clients.

Through the project, more employers, including those in sectors with no tradition of HE, will be engaged though a continuum of opportunities. These opportunities will help develop a highly skilled workforce underpinned by the University of Derby’s flexible framework for bespoke and shorter awards.

Funding award : £4,265,000

Web-site : www.derby.ac.uk