Microsoft invests heavily in further education and skills development through various programs. These include free software and resources like DreamSpark for students and faculty, the Microsoft IT Academy for certifications, and partnerships to modernize curriculums with relevant technical skills. The goal is to fuel Microsoft's economy now and in the future by supplying a talent pipeline of qualified professionals in areas like application development, infrastructure, and more. Microsoft sees further education institutions as ideal partners to deliver these important skills through programs that benefit both students and educators.

1. Holistic programmes from Microsoft for
Microsoft Investments in Further
Education and skills
Mike Morris: Business Manager Further Education

2. Further Educations Aims:
Delivering relevant skills in support of the economy
Microsoft's needs:
To deliver relevant skills into the Microsoft economy

3. The Microsoft Economy
Now
Microsoft itself
Application user
skills
Infrastructure skills
Developer skills Future
app creation skill
Microsoft Itself
App User Skills
Infrastructure skills
Developer skills
App creation skills

4. How Does Microsoft Fuel it’s Economy?
Investment in Education
“Further Education’s aims align most closely to those of
Microsoft and F.E. should therefore be the main
beneficiary of this investment”

5. Free Faculty & Student Programs of Interest
IT Academy: Academic Faculty
Certification Imagine Cup Search Connection
Microsoft
Low Cost
Licensing
Partners in Programmes: Curriculum
DreamSpark
Learning ESP-A Resources

6. Free Faculty & Student Programs of Interest Cont.
OpenSource Student to Microsoft Student
Community Experience Business Blog & Facebook
Phone App
Start-Up Support Xbox Game Clubs & Societies Faculty Connection
Mentoring Development Blog & Linkedin

7. DreamSpark
Tools and resources to make the most of learning, teaching and research
Tools Curriculum Community
Free curriculum
Professional
materials, from
developer and On-line and in-
Key Stage 1 to
designer tools to person
post
build real communities of
graduate, covering
sites, apps, games, students, teachers
hundreds of
cloud services and and researchers
Computer Science
more
topics

8. DreamSpark Software*
Free for students, included with EES or academic pricing for institutions
Schools
Visual Studio FE & HE STEM
Windows 7
Professional, Expression, Windows Visual Studio Premium
Visual Studio Ultimate
Server, Windows Embedded, SQL Visio, Project, OneNote
BizTalk Server
Server SharePoint Server
• HE STEM departments only
• Free to all students for personal use • Students, Educators, labs
• Free for Microsoft IT
• Free to Colleges Academies or from
£250/year per department
Also offers easy access to other free tools, including Kodu Game Lab, Small
Basic, Windows Phone tools, Kinect SDK, XNA Game Studio and more
* Academic/non-commercial use

9. 427,000 products 300 (<7%) of FE
“ready to be
UK secondary schools,
downloaded and used
retrained”
and HE institutions
view commonly
by over 140,000 subscribe to DreamSpark
expressed among the
students; <2% of 16,734 UK curriculum 32,000 Microsoft
secondary and tertiary content downloads from Partner companies in
Microsoft Faculty Connection the UK when recruiting
UK students in 2011 in 2011 CS graduates
43,599 world-wide
22,000 tech students
“like” our Facebook page and
downloads of Windows 46% of UK
Phone Programming in 2011 Application Development
330 CS Educators joined - curriculum written by Rob job ads specify Microsoft
our LinkedIn group in 2011 Miles, University of Hull .NET skills
Sources: www.itjobswatch.co.uk, Microsoft internal reporting systems for DreamSpark, Faculty Connection and
Windows Phone Marketplace, www.facebook.com/microsoftukstudents and Microsoft Faculty Connection UK on LinkedIn

10. Microsoft IT Academy
UK
+10,000 across +700 Partnerships:
160 countries UK IT Academies
Awarding Bodies
Professional Publishers
Certifications Associations
mapped in QCF
70,413 Academic National and
Certifications in State wide
Wide
the UK in 2011 Agreements

11. Microsoft IT Academy Benefits
Time Lower Validate
Saving Institution CPD Skills For
Curriculum Costs Industry
+300 E- Annual Low Cost MCT Curriculum
Fee aligned to
Learning Membership
Academic Pricing Certification
Courses on further Certification Certification
Lesson Plans Courseware and Start Kits mapped to QCF
Certification Certifications
Digital E-Reference
Site License developed to
Literacy options for MTA
Libraries meet needs of
Test Banks & MOS +18k MCT’s industry
Providing industry-leading training resources and Microsoft Certifications to enhance
employability and school readiness, and encourage life-long learning

12. Supporting UK IT Education Challenges
Adoption of General Lecturer Colleges
Computer Science IT Skills and Responding to
Courses Awareness Cloud Skills Shift
Skills acquisition to Modernising lecturers IT Industry is evolving
teach to new CS skills and use of rapidly
curriculum and technology in the Growing demand for
concepts classroom. skills on cloud tech.
Creating engaging Shifting perceptions Tools, Curriculum and
and inspirational and mindsets Certification are
lessons available now

13. Existing Microsoft partnerships
“A PC in every home” to end the digital divide within and between countries (Bill Gates)
Shape the Future
In 42 countries
6 million PCs
With Martha Lane Fox With Student Finance
Windows 7 Refurbished England
PCs for less than £100 Windows 7 and special
A “help yourself” offer version of MS Office
For Schools and families Working with 19
suppliers
Ready “out of the box”
42,000 per annum
4,000 sold and growing

14. Microsoft Partner Apprenticeships
Growing businesses and providing sustainable opportunities for young people
Microsoft 1162 trained to Level 3/4 City &
E-skills date in 300 Guilds + Microsoft
NAS businesses Certifications
Technical Support
Technical Sales
Software
Development

15. Possible points of entry
into the process
Get
Online
@Hom
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Curriculum
PILSR Transformation
Progr Developing and
ess CPD Enhanced
review Graduate
Success
Learning
Suite and
IT Events
Academy and Student 2
Dreamspark Business
training
and
Skills
Relevant Calculator
Global Network Technology
YouTube
Channel, Facebook
, Twitter & Blogs
Delivering Innovation, Inspiration and Change