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AYRSHIRE UPDATE
Connecting Colleges
There are many benefits to
merger and one of the most
significant is pooling our talent
and sharing best practice from
the three partner colleges in
Ayrshire from a staff, student
and stakeholder perspective.
The colleges in Ayrshire have worked
together on many initiatives in recent
years as part of the Ayrshire Learning
Partnership. Connecting across the
colleges to move towards merger has
provided the opportunity for staff and
students to get involved and work
together to build a vision for the
regional college.
The Ayrshire Partnership Board (APB)
completed financial and legal due
diligence for the merger and are awaiting
feedback from cultural due diligence.
This will be undertaken when the
assignment of staff from James Watt
is completed.
Branch Representatives from UNISON
and EIS/FELA have been meeting with
Heather Dunk and these have been
positive and enabled information to
be shared.
Organisational Development (OD)
Workstream Update
Key Focus
The work of the OD workstream covers
all aspects of Human Resources and
Organisational Development functions
across the three colleges including
Engagement, Enhancing Performance,
Governance, Management Information
Systems, Remuneration and Recognition
and Resourcing.
A key element in moving the activities
of the workstream forward is the
assignment of staff from James Watt
College to the Ayrshire Region. This work
is due to be completed by the end of
February and will enable a range of other
actions to be taken forward including
further cross college staff events.
Vision Values and Voice workshop
outcomes were used to inform the public
consultation document and provided
feedback to the APB. In order to engage
staff in the next phase of merger activities,
a series of workshops will be held in
April and May.
The cultural study will take place in
February and March and all staff will
have an opportunity to contribute.
OD workstream
Cross college workstreams have been
created to work with the Principals
and Project Manager to identify critical
activities for merger and to develop
action plans to ensure that the necessary
infrastructure and processes are in
place for Vesting Day and beyond.
Here is a quick summary of some of
the progress so far.
Next Steps
resourcing
HR info
Systems
continuous
professional
development
Equalities
Health
and
safety
communications