October 2008 |
How Government might best support a thriving culture of informal adult learning
This session built on the responses to the consultation that had recently taken place on Informal Adult Learning. Our goal was to shape a cross-Government framework that, with regional and local flexibilities, demonstrates its roles and responsibilities in supporting a thriving culture of informal adult learning. In doing so, we wanted to scope how DIUS could best help to grow and support informal adult learning in ways that connect with other key policy areas both with the Department and across Government. |
Sponsor: Dept. for Innovation, Universities
& Skills through the Central Office for Information
Background Paper, Report and List of Participants
available in library section |
June 2008 |
The role of
English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) provision in
helping to strengthen community cohesion
The purpose of this session was to build on the
responses to a wide reaching consultation on how ESOL funding
might best be targeted to foster cohesion and integration within
our communities. The event helped to shape a national framework
that, with regional and local flexibilities, provides a clear
focus for targeting funding for ESOL provision. |
Sponsor: Dept. for Innovation, Universities
& Skills through the Central Office for Information
Background Paper, Report and List of Participants
available in library section |
December 2007 |
Fit for purpose solutions:
an approach to making the most of older workers within an integrated
skills and employment system
Our discussions flowed from the premise that the
UK cannot afford to ignore the contribution that older workers
can make to our economy, given the right assistance. And, without
this assistance, older people will make up an increasingly large
group of those without work and dependent upon State aid and
benefits.
At the event we considered what now needs to be done to ensure
that national and regional infrastructures and support systems
for the development of skills and to access employment is sufficiently
tailored and flexible to help older workers. |
Sponsor: Prime Advantage, ESF Equal
Project
Background Paper, Report and
List of Participants available in library section |
November 2007 |
Development of the Workforce
Strategy for the Further Education Sector in England 2007-12
At this event, we built on responses to the consultation
that preceded it to explore how we can begin to implement changes
across the four key areas for consultation: understanding the
workforce, attracting and retaining the best people and improving
the sector image, training and developing a modernized workforce,
and increasing the diversity of the workforce. |
Sponsor: Lifelong Learning UK
Background Paper, Strategy,
Implementation Plan and List of Participants available in library
section |
July 2007 |
Education and Training for Young People
in the Youth Justice System: are we doing enough?
Our focus at this event was to build on consultation
responses on issues about the education of young people, aged
between 10 – 17 years, supervised by the youth justice
system within England. The 24 hour session will explore how
we can begin to implement changes across the four key areas
for consultation: participation in education, training and employment,
delivering a relevant curriculum, workforce development and
accountability for young offenders’ education. |
Sponsor: Dept for Children, Schools
& Families
Background Paper, Report and
List of Participants available in library section |
March 2007 |
Reducing Skill shortages through effective
guidance and training of older workers
This event explored what now needs to be done
to establish a national infrastructure and support system to
encourage and assist older workers to meet skill shortages,
alongside existing national anti-discrimination, pensions and
benefits programmes. |
Sponsor: Tick Tock, ESF Equal Project
Background Paper, Report and
List of Participants available in library section |
January 2007 |
Taking forward the specification for
new qualifications (within the scope of the UK Qualifications
Reform Programme) and clarifying their relationship with National
Occupational Standards and wider learning
This event helped to firm up the specification
for qualifications and the relationships and processes that
need to be in place to make the shared vision of the four nations
a reality. |
Sponsor: Sector Skills Development
Agency
Background Paper, Report and
List of Participants available in library section |
December 2006 |
What will Further Education mean in
2025?
The purpose of the event was to sharpen up our
vision of the future, and then work backwards to 2006 to consider
what we need to be doing now, and over the coming months and
years, to ensure that we are moving in the right direction of
travel. |
Sponsor: Dept of Education &
Skills
Background Paper, Report and
List of Participants available in library section |
June 2006 |
Building Learning Alliances for Personal
& Community Development Learning
Our goals for this event were to:
• identify the high level objectives that
we want learning that is aimed at helping personal and community
development to work towards;
• firm up our thinking about the ways in
which learning alliances can achieve these objectives, such
as through inter agency and provider co-operation at local level;
• confirm national priorities, and identified
a number of different types of effective local partnerships
able to achieve the high level objectives we feel we should
be aiming for. |
Sponsor: Dept of Education &
Skills & National Institute of Adult & Continuing Education
Background Paper, Report and
List of Participants available in library section |
March 2006 |
Taking forward the Youth Matters Agenda
This event was designed to facilitate an open
and confidential discussion with those who have key roles and
responsibilities in the Youth Matters agenda about how best
to take forward a strategic change programme that will make
a new framework for integrated services and opportunities for
young people a reality. |
Sponsor: Dept of Education &
Skills
Background Paper, Report and
List of Participants available in library section |
February 2006 |
Skills in London: Preparing
for 2012
The purpose of the event was to bring together
the key players with different (though sometimes overlapping)
responsibilities for the development of skills for employment
in the Capital. Our focus is the 2012 Olympic Games.
Our discussions:
• confirmed what we knew at this stage to
be the major skill demands that London faces in preparing for
the delivery of 2012 Olympic Games;
• sharpened up how these skills should be
met and the roles of different agencies in achieving this.
• developed a shared strategic plan outlining
our collective approach, and agreed a process for taking this
plan forward. |
Sponsor: Learning & Skills
Council London, London Development Agency |