Pembrokeshire College Workshop

The pilot exercise planned for Pembrokeshire College began on 1st February 2013 with a workshop led by Tony Toole. The workshop involved Geoff Elliott and Wendy Webber from Pembrokeshire together with two of the WBL programme Training Advisors. The digitised WBL administration system was demonstrated, as was the digital pen system for audit trail signatures. It was agreed that a cohort of work-based learners from the Pembrokeshire programme would be selected and that a pilot exercise would be carried out using the digitised system in parallel with the normal paper-based system. This would mirror the exercise being carried out at Coleg Sir Gar. A partnership agreement would be drawn up that detailed the work to be carried out and also the funding made available from the project for the work. A pilot project plan would be submitted immediately for that purpose. It was agreed that the Pembrokeshire College team would have complete freedom in designing and carrying out their pilot exercise, to suit their client groups and methods of operation. It was further agreed that they would experiment with other technologies in the gathering and recording of administrative and management information as they felt appropriate. All of this additional information would add value to the project findings.