Case Study: Improve

Improve are the Sector Skills Council for the Food and Drink Manufacturing and Processing Industry.


The Challenge
Skills shortage recognised: The UK food and drink industry is the largest manufacturing sector in the UK and second most productive food and drink industry in the world, but facing serious skills shortages, particularly in management.
Improve's response: Through the Women and Work: Sector Pathways Initiative, Improve received funding to up-skill 600 female supervisors and aspiring managers within the industry.


The Requirement
To prepare and deliver an accredited Level 3 management award through blended learning, with on-line support and information.
To initiate a full reporting programme on delegate progress and quality issues
Simple administrative procedures to be incorporated.
The whole programme ready to run within 6 weeks.


Cambridge Professional Academy's solution:
High quality, tailored learning programme developed, incorporating specially written learning materials, work-based assessed projects, contact strategy giving continuous and motivational support, unlimited on-line personal support for all participants for duration of study.
Materials delivered in hard-copy and electronic format.
Established dedicated team of trainers for workshops and on-line support throughout the programme.
Constructed bespoke and dedicated website with secure personal pages for participants.
Integrated back office IT systems allowing fully automated and seamless administration for enquiry to registration to completion.
Full management reporting package initiated and integrated with Improve's own IT systems.
Stringent quality checks.
Programme up and running within 5 weeks.

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Being experts in delivering distance learning courses in CIM, management, and marketing, the Cambridge Professional Academy aims to deliver this solution for the skills academy over the coming months.
This will be done in colaboration with the Anglia software house altFusion providing the ASP.NET IT systems.
The progress of this solution will be commented on in this blog and on the CPA new postings update here.