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Skills, Jobs, Growth
08 Feb 2010
UK Commission for Employment and Skills Convention.
This invitation only conference brought together national and international skills experts and leading thinkers to focus on the UK's future strategy for skills, jobs and growth.
Programme
Day 1 - 08 Feb 2010
09:10
Introductory video
09:45
Willy Roe, Chairman, Skills Development Scotland
Welcome and introduction from Conference Chair
10:00
Chris Humphries, Chief Executive, UK Commission for Employment and Skills
Setting the scene for UK skills
Please note that Chris Humphries stood in for Professor Mike Campbell, Director of Research and Policy, UK Commission for Employment and Skills whose slides were used in this presentation
10:20
Richard Lambert, Director General, CBI
Global skills challenges
10:40
Robin Shreeve, Chief Executive, Skills Australia
An Australian perspective on skills
11:00
Virginia Hamilton, Executive Director, California Workforce Association
The US response to the global skills challenge
11:20
Questions and discussion: Session 1
11:30
Refreshments, networking and exhibition
12:00
Key policy and learning seminars stream B: Employer Ambition
Workforce development – understanding and meeting employers’ skills needs
Richard Brown, Former Chief Executive, Council for Industry and Higher Education (CIHE)
Olga Strietska-Ilina, Specialist in Skills Development Policies and Systems, ILO
Chaired by: Carol Stanfield, Senior Research Manager, UK Commission for Employment and Skills
12:00
Key policy and learning seminars stream C: Individual Opportunity
Skills and migration
Elizabeth Collett, European Policy Fellow, Senior Advisor, Transatlantic Council on Migration,
Migration Policy Institute
Mark Franks, Head of Secretariat, Migration Advisory Committee
Chaired by: Katerina Rudiger, Policy Analyst, UK Commission for Employment and Skills
12:00
Key policy and learning seminars stream B: Employer Ambition
Employer investment and returns - why invest in skills?
Marita Aho, Senior Adviser, Confederation of Finnish Industries
Professor Lorna Unwin, Department of Lifelong and Comparative Education, Institute of Education
Chaired by: Richard Garrett, Research Manager, UK Commission for Employment and Skills
12:00
Key policy and learning seminars stream A: Agile Systems
Meeting China’s employment and skills challenge in the current economic downturn and preparing for recovery
Dr Ma Liang, Senior Advisor to Ministry of Labor, People’s Republic of China
Chaired by: Moira McKerracher, Assistant Director of Strategy and Performance, UK Commission for Employment and Skills
12:00
Key policy and learning seminars stream A: Agile Systems
Tackling New Zealand’s skills shortages: tertiary education and regional strategies
Janice Shiner, Former Chair, Tertiary Education Commission (New Zealand)
Chaired by: Paul Drake, Senior Policy Analyst, UK Commission for Employment and Skills
13:00
Buffet lunch, networking and exhibition
14:00
Key policy and learning seminars stream B: Employer Ambition
Improving job quality – a contribution to productivity
Professor Francis Green, School of Economics, University of Kent
Radoslaw Owczarzak, Research Manager, European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions
Chaired by: Katerina Rudiger, Policy Analyst, UK Commission for Employment and Skills
14:00
Key policy and learning seminars stream A: Agile Systems
Different approaches to the skills and employment system: learning from the Singapore experience
Dr Gary Willmott, Founding Executive Director, Institute for Adult Learning, Singapore
Joyce Tan, Principal Manager Research, Institute for Adult Learning, Singapore
Chaired by: Lesley Giles, Deputy Director of Research and Policy, UK Commission for Employment and Skills
14:00
Key policy and learning seminars stream C: Individual Opportunity
Encouraging a culture of lifelong learning
Tom Schuller, Director, NIACE
Tricia Hartley, Chief Executive, Campaign for Learning
Chaired by: Susannah Constable, Research Manager, UK Commission for Employment and Skills
14:00
Key policy and learning seminars stream A: Agile Systems
International best practice
John D Baker, President, Strategies for the Future, Austin, Texas
Francesca Froy, Policy Analyst, OECD LEED Programme
Chaired by: Mark Spilsbury, Chief Economist, UK Commission for Employment and Skills
15:00
Refreshments, networking and exhibition
15:30
Robert Strauss, Local Development and Corporate Social Responsibility, Director General, Employment and Social Affairs Directorate, European Commission
New skills for new jobs
15:50
Panel discussion: Session 4
Robert Strauss to be joined by:
Chris Humphries, Chief Executive, UK Commission for Employment and Skills
Olaf Cramme, Director, Policy Network
Goran Hultin, Chairman and CEO, Caden Corporation
Simon Field, Directorate for Education, OECD
16:30
Sir Michael Rake, Chairman of the UK Commission for Employment and Skills and of BT Group plc
Closing address
16:45
Robin Shreeve, Chief Executive, Skills Australia
Signing of the Memorandum of Understanding with Skills Australia
19:00
Professor David Finegold, Dean, School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers State University, New Jersey
Gala dinner speech
Day 2 - 09 Feb 2010
09:30
Willy Roe, Chairman, Skills Development Scotland
Welcome and introduction from Conference Chair
09:40
Short film overview of Day One
09:50
Michael Davis, Director of Strategy and Performance, UK Commission for Employment and Skills
Opening address - Towards “Ambition 2020”
10:10
Charlie Mayfield, Chairman, John Lewis Partnership
The UK skills challenge
10:30
Panel discussion: Session 5
Brendan Barber, General Secretary, TUC
Lynne Sedgemore, Executive Director, 157 Group
Michael Davis, Director of Strategy and Performance, UK Commission for Employment and Skills
11:10
Refreshments, networking and exhibition
11:40
Key policy and learning seminars stream C: Individual Opportunity
Breaking cycles of poverty - what role for employment and skills?
Dr Tracy Shildrick, Lecturer in Sociology/Youth Studies, Teeside University
Dr Mark Tomlinson, Senior Research Officer, University of Oxford
Dr Kathryn Ray, Senior Research Fellow, Policy Studies Institute
Professor Ron McQuaid, Director, Edinburgh Napier University
Hilary Metcalf, Senior Research Fellow, National Institute for Economic & Social Research
Chris Goulden, Policy and Research Manager, Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Chaired by: Abigail Gibson, Senior Policy Analyst, UK Commission for Employment and Skills
11:40
Key policy and learning seminars stream B: Employer Ambition
Integrating employment and skills
Jim Hillage, Director of Research, Institute for Employment Studies
Kate Still, Director of Development, The Wise Group
Andy Wilson, Principal, Westminster Kingsway College
Chaired by: Alison Richardson, Assistant Director of Strategy and Performance, UK Commission for Employment and Skills
11:40
Key policy and learning seminars stream A: Agile Systems
Skills Activism - towards an active UK skills strategy
Professor Ewart Keep, Deputy Director, SKOPE
Dinah Caine, Chief Executive, Skillset
Chaired by: Mark Spilsbury, Chief Economist, UK Commission for Employment and Skills
11:40
Key policy and learning seminars stream B: Employer Ambition
Increasing employer investment – collective action on skills
Anna Fazackerly, Head of Education, Policy Exchange
Annette Cox, Associate Director, Institute for Employment Studies
Nigel Whitehead, Group Managing Director - Programmes and Support, BAE Systems
Chaired by: Carol Stanfield, Senior Research Manager, UK Commission for Employment and Skills
11:40
Key policy and learning seminars stream B: Employer Ambition Skills utilisation & high performance working – maximising the value of skills
Dr Janet Lowe, Chair, Scottish Funding Council / Skills Development Scotland Skills Committee
Professor David Ashton, Emeritus Professor, Leicester University; Honorary Professor, Cardiff University
Ian Brinkley, Knowledge Economy Programme Director, The Work Foundation
Chaired by: Lesley Giles, Deputy Director of Research and Policy, UK Commission for Employment and Skills
12:40
Buffet lunch, networking and exhibition
13:40
Policy and way forward seminars stream A: Agile Systems
Achieving transformation - creating a system fit for the challenges ahead
Simon Duffy, Centre for Welfare Reform
Geoff Mulgan, Director, The Young Foundation
John Stone, Chief Executive, Learning and Skills Network
Chaired by: Ian Kinder, Assistant Director of Strategy and Performance, UK Commission for Employment and Skills
13:40
Policy and way forward seminars stream B: Employer Ambition
Building a high value workforce
Dr Laurie Bassi, Chief Executive, McBassi & Company
Professor John Philpott, Chief Economist, CIPD
Chaired by: Paul Drake, Senior Policy Analyst, UK Commission for Employment and Skills
13:40
Policy and way forward seminars stream C: Individual Opportunity
Increasing individual ambition
Dr Colin Lindsay, Senior Research Fellow, Employment Research Institute, Edinburgh Napier University
Iain Murray, Senior Policy Officer, TUC
Chaired by: Carol Stanfield, Senior Research Manager, UK Commission for Employment and Skills
13:40
Policy and way forward seminars - stream A: Agile system
Higher education and skills - learner choice and returns on learning
Professor Kate Purcell, Institute of Employment Research
Alan Felstead, Research Professor at Cardiff School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University
Chaired by: Gillian Brewin, Programme Manager, UK Commission for Employment and Skills
14:40
Panel discussion: Session 8
Chris Humphries, Chief Executive, UK Commission for Employment & Skills to be joined by:
Professor David Finegold, Dean, School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers State University, New Jersey
Dr Laurie Bassi, Chief Executive, McBassi & Company
Professor Kate Purcell, Institute for Employment Research
15:10
Short film overview of Day Two