How Best Can We Deliver The New Government Skills Strategy?11 October 2010

Event overview

Setting colleges free; reducing number of needs; 50k more apprenticeships; lifelong learning accounts; greater employer engagement and qualifications employers want; more adult and community learning

What are the new Government agenda and expectations? What will be the impact of the Budget?
How will Government prioritise more apprenticeships, reducing NEETS and more adult and community learning?
How can we best support progression through different types of education?
How can we best strengthen supply of technician skills to the economy, particularly through level 3 apprenticeships?
How best can we prioritise vocational qualifications that are understood and valued by employers?
How should we work with business and skills bodies to promote greater employer engagement?
How can we make better use of existing skills in the workplace?
How do we reduce the number of 18 to 24-year-olds not in employment, education or training?
How do we break the link between NEETS and welfare dependency?
How do we secure high quality training for unemployed people to get the skills needed for work-readiness?
How will Lifelong Learning Accounts work to create informed and empowered learners with a thirst for learning?
How do we successfully encourage more people to participate in adult and community learning?
How do we achieve joint investment proposals in high-value areas of the economy and boost skills?
How best can we be agile and responsive in an ever changing global economy?
How do we ensure new policies respond to individual needs, reskilling both the young and those left behind?
How best do we skill up disadvantaged communities?
What role should local government have in delivering policies locally on issues like NEETs?
How do we better join up thinking between the UK nations, sectors and parts of education?
Where can we hope to be in ten years time?

This CPPS seminar brings together key figures from across sectors in the important debate on how best to deliver skills provision in line with policies of a new Government.

The day encourages brief, focused presentations followed by engaged discussion by all attending in a relaxed setting. It is hoped that it will make a valuable contribution to taking forward the issues.