London Region Post-14 Network Open Lecture Series: The work of the UK Commission for Employment and Skills
10 February 2010
17:30 to 19:30 , Elvin Hall, Institute of Education
Chris Humphries
During this free lecture Chris Humphries, the Chief Executive of the UK Commission, will set out the evidence, analysis and underpinning principles which shaped the Commission's thinking, and explain in more depth the proposals and recommendations of their report.
In October 2009, the UK Commission for Employment and Skills published its report entitled `Towards Ambition 2020: Skills, Jobs, Growth' which set out radical recommendations for a new skills strategy for England, and also its promised proposals to simplify the skills system in England and dramatically reduce the number of . Less than one month later, the UK government published `Skills for Growth', its new skills strategy, which accepted the majority of the Commission's proposals and set out its forward agenda for change.
For further details on this and other lectures in the Current Issues in Lifelong Learning Open Lecture Series please visit www.ioe.ac.uk/research/209.html
For further information please contact Richard Bull : r.bull@ioe.ac.uk