Open Tech Initiative

The Open Tech initiative was a parallel to the Open University model of education. The project focused on opening up the opportunities and reducing barriers to access for training and learning for people at a technician grade and above, but specifically not management training. The Open Tech Initiative commissioned projects around the country led by industrial companies and colleges. The projects took an evaluative role as well as a consultant role as those working on it studied and consulted upon around 65 to 70 different projects over a three and a half year period. The objectives for the initiative were on sorted on three levels, general objectives over the entire initiative looking at all of the projects as a whole, objectives for the types of projects they put effort into and finally the objectives of each specific project. In the first phase of the Learning at Work Development Project a study was made of the opportunities for learning at work in work experience schemes in four areas of the country. This information was used to create a framework for looking at creating a work environment that encouraged young people to learn. The second phase of the project was used to trial and develop initiatives based on the information gathered in phase one.

1980-2000

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