BTSR guidebook ~ Training & skills self-evaluation
BBC Learning Board/Academy
| Date: | May 2009 |
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| Contact: | Rob Alcock |
| Telephone: | 07740 444633 |
The BBC Learning Board was established in 2005 in order to facilitate the strategic planning of training across the BBC.
The Board has stewardship of a central training budget and is the decision-making authority for how this budget will be spent. The BBC Academy will launch in the autumn of 2009, consolidating the existing training provision across the BBC into one function comprising the College of Journalism, College of Production, College of Leadership and a specialist centre for Broadcast Engineering & Technology. Under the new model, the Learning Board will become the Academy Board, working under the Chairmanship of the Deputy Director General, Mark Byford.
Each College will report to a College Board and will continue to define the strategic development priorities for their area, together with associated budgetary requirements, and present their proposed development strategy to the Academy Board for discussion and approval.
The BBC Academy is responsible for agreeing a Learning & Development plan combining the strategic plans from the Colleges, together with the more operational training needs of the business. The Academy Board is the sign-off authority for this plan.
The Academy Board will continue the pattern set by the Learning Board of meeting on a bi-monthly basis and will debate all matters concerning the ongoing skills development of the organisation.
These include not only the development strategies from each of the Colleges, but more global matters such as the changing ways in which learning is consumed; the BBC´s relationship with external partners and industry bodies, such as Skillset; the development of learning portals and how we combine learning with corporate social responsibility.
The Academy Board model enables the BBC to build an organisation-wide view of development needs and prioritise these accordingly, ensuring that all activity is targeted at the right level, in the right place and at the right cost.
The Academy Board will provide a strategic focus to the BBC´s training and development activity, reflecting the needs of a digital and multi-platform environment. Pan-BBC programmes, such as the Digital Media Initiative and Journalism Production Tools, will benefit from an integrated approach where the specialist skills of each of the Colleges combine to provide the most appropriate response to skills development needs.
