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Microsoft Investments in Further Education and skillsMike Morris: Business Manager Further Education

Further Educations Aims:

Delivering relevant skills in support of the economy

Microsoft's needs:

To deliver relevant skills into the Microsoft economy

The Microsoft Economy

NowMicrosoft itselfApplication user skillsInfrastructure skillsDeveloper skillsapp creation skill Future

Microsoft ItselfApp User SkillsInfrastructure skillsDeveloper skillsApp creation skills

How Does Microsoft Fuel it’s Economy?

Investment in Education

“Further Education’s aims align most closely to those of Microsoft and F.E. should therefore be the main beneficiary of this investment”

Microsoft

Low Cost Licensing Programmes:ESP-A

Free Faculty & Student Programs of Interest

AcademicSearch

IT Academy:Certification

Partners in Learning

Imagine Cup

Faculty Connection

Curriculum ResourcesDreamSp

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Phone App Xbox Game Development

Free Faculty & Student Programs of Interest Cont.

Student to Business

Start-Up Support Mentoring

Experience

Clubs & Societies

OpenSourceCommunity

Microsoft Student Blog & Facebook

Faculty Connection Blog & Linkedin

DreamSpark

Professional developer and designer tools to build real sites, apps, games, cloud services and more

On-line and in-person communities of students, teachers and researchers

Free curriculum materials, from Key Stage 1 to post graduate, covering hundreds of Computer Science topics

Tools and resources to make the most of learning, teaching and research

Tools CurriculumCommunity

DreamSpark Software*

Visual Studio Professional, Expression, Windows Server, Windows Embedded, SQL Server

Windows 7Visual Studio PremiumVisual Studio UltimateVisio, Project, OneNoteBizTalk ServerSharePoint Server

Free for students, included with EES or academic pricing for institutions

• Free to all students for personal use• Free to Colleges

* Academic/non-commercial use

• HE STEM departments only

• Students, Educators, labs

• Free for Microsoft IT Academies or from £250/year per department

Schools FE & HE STEM

Also offers easy access to other free tools, including Kodu Game Lab, Small Basic, Windows Phone tools, Kinect SDK, XNA Game Studio and more

427,000 products downloaded and used by over

140,000 students; <2% of secondary and tertiaryUK students in 2011

300 (<7%) ofUK secondary schools, FE and HE institutions subscribe to DreamSpark

“ready to be retrained”view commonly expressed among the 32,000 Microsoft Partner companies in the UK when recruiting CS graduates

22,000 tech students “like” our Facebook page and

330 CS Educators joined our LinkedIn group in 2011

46% of UK Application Development job ads specify Microsoft .NET skills

16,734 UK curriculum content downloads from Microsoft Faculty Connection in 2011

43,599 world-wide downloads of Windows Phone Programming in 2011 - curriculum written by Rob Miles, University of Hull

Sources: www.itjobswatch.co.uk, Microsoft internal reporting systems for DreamSpark, Faculty Connection andWindows Phone Marketplace, www.facebook.com/microsoftukstudents and Microsoft Faculty Connection UK on LinkedIn

Professional Certifications mapped in QCF

70,413 Academic Certifications in the UK in 2011

Microsoft IT Academy

UK Partnerships:Awarding BodiesPublishersAssociations

+10,000 across 160 countries

National and State wide Agreements

+700 UK IT Academies

National and State Wide Agreements

Time Saving Curriculum

Lower Institution Costs

Microsoft IT Academy Benefits

CPD

+300 E-Learning CoursesLesson PlansDigital LiteracyTest Banks

MCT MembershipCertification Start KitsE-Reference Libraries+18k MCT’s

Annual Low Cost FeeAcademic Pricing on further Courseware and CertificationSite License options for MTA & MOS

Curriculum aligned to CertificationCertification mapped to QCFCertifications developed to meet needs of industry

Providing industry-leading training resources and Microsoft Certifications to enhance employability and school readiness, and encourage life-long learning

Validate Skills For Industry

Adoption of Computer Science Courses

General Lecturer IT Skills and Awareness

Supporting UK IT Education Challenges

Colleges Responding to Cloud Skills Shift

Skills acquisition to teach to new CS curriculum and conceptsCreating engaging and inspirational lessons

IT Industry is evolving rapidlyGrowing demand for skills on cloud tech.Tools, Curriculum and Certification are available now

Modernising lecturers skills and use of technology in the classroom.Shifting perceptions and mindsets

Existing Microsoft partnerships

Shape the Future

In 42 countries

6 million PCs

With Martha Lane FoxWindows 7 Refurbished PCs for less than £100A “help yourself” offerFor Schools and families Ready “out of the box” 4,000 sold and growing

With Student Finance EnglandWindows 7 and special version of MS OfficeWorking with 19 suppliers42,000 per annum

“A PC in every home” to end the digital divide within and between countries (Bill Gates)

MicrosoftE-skillsNAS

1162 trained to date in 300 businesses

Microsoft Partner Apprenticeships

Level 3/4 City & Guilds + Microsoft Certifications

Technical SupportTechnical SalesSoftware Development

Growing businesses and providing sustainable opportunities for young people

Global Network YouTube Channel,

Facebook , Twitter &

Blogs

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Events and trainin

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Learning Suite and Dreamspa

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Curriculum Transformation and Enhanced Graduate Success

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Possible points of entry into the process

Delivering Innovation, Inspiration and Change