MyKnowledgeMap awarded Tesco retail degree development
Learning specialist MyKnowledgeMap (MKM) has been awarded the contract to
develop a Foundation Degree in Retail to be piloted by Tesco Stores.
MKM is being partnered on the project, awarded by government agency
Foundation Degree Forward, by the Retail Academy, Manchester Metropolitan
University and The University of the Arts.
The Foundation Degree in Retail qualification is being mapped against the
Skillsmart Retail Foundation degree framework and will utilise a
combination of e-learning materials, residential delivery and online
support to ensure that the programme can be accessed by students in the
workplace.
The programme draws upon workplace experience to structure and inform the
development of learning materials and integrates work based learning and
academic study through work based projects, assignments, and a reflective
log and portfolio.
As technical developer for the project, MKM has been selected to design
and build the e-learning and the work based learning support system for
the qualification. The cohort management, e-portfolio solutions and
e-learning provided is to be based on MKM?s innovative Compendle
technology.
MKM has started by producing e-learning on personal development and
consumer behaviour to support learning module themes of Business
Improvement, Customer and Staff Loyalty and the Application of Technology
within the retail sector.
Tesco Stores will be running a pilot programme for the qualification,
recruiting students in employment with diverse educational backgrounds.
The student profile will be a combination of experienced retail
professionals and new entrants to the sector.
The programme will provide a work based higher education route for
students who would have traditionally progressed to university at 18 or
would be unlikely to access higher education because of their work and
life commitments.
Post-pilot, it will next be available to the whole retail sector with the
aim of establishing consistent, national learning provision that
employers and learners accept as being central to their workforce and
personal development strategy.
Tesco Stores views the development and trial of a Foundation Degree in
Retail as an opportunity for its personnel to study and learn as they
continue to earn a living and develop their career with the company,
Britain?s largest food retailer.
"The Retail Foundation Degree will become the latest part of the set of
Tesco training and development on offer to our people," says spokesman,
Claire Peters. "We want all our staff in stores to have the opportunity
to gain an educational qualification whilst continuing to work for
Tesco."
The new course completes another stage in the development of a suite of
qualifications, alongside the Retail Apprenticeship Level 2 programme,
which started in 2004 at Tesco.
"Our aim over the next five years is that all store employees will be
able to enhance their education with Tesco, no matter what their age or
level," says Claire Peters.
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