CEL Policy Update No. 12
Posted: 19 December 2007
This extract from the Centre for Excellence in Leadership's policy update covers the period 30 November to 7 December 2007. It includes the following stories:
Further Education, Skills and the Economy
- More than £2 billion for FE in Thames Gateway project
- New National Skills Academy will work from Olympics building site in Thames Gateway
- Seven employers sign up to Local Employment Partnerships
- Consultation on CEL-QIA merger opens
- Government launches new consultation on recruiting disabled persons into workforce
- DIUS will establish boards to oversee delivery of skills PSA
- Pathways to Work contractors begin work
- Denham praises union learning representatives
- LSC-backed plan to merge five Leeds colleges faces opposition from two of them
- LSC releases research demonstrating value of skills education
- Department of Health publishes booklet advising occupational therapists on importance of vocational advice
- Futureskills Scotland releases surveys of skills
- Northern Ireland Government publishes skills survey
14-19 and Schools Policy
- Government education adviser calls for new class of vocational schools
- Employment group says schools should recruit among refugees
Higher Education Policy
- DIUS announces new funding for workers seeking HE qualifications
- Academics' report: Chinese HE is a competitor, not a partner
- Women, minority students least likely to get university places; vocationally trained students also disadvantaged
- Brown approves new £500 million centre for medical research
Innovation Policy
- DIUS inaugurates consultation on innovation policy
Other Policy News
- Government establishes £1.5 billion Working Neighbourhoods Fund
- Blears: More areas to start participatory budgeting
- Review planned of Government contractors
- Report examines progress towards full equality for disabled persons
- New appointments to North East England RDA