Foundation seminar series - Developing workers' skills: actors and actions, 2008
2nd session - Developing workers' skills: actors and actions, 5 - 7 November 2008, London, United Kingdom
Venue: The Work Foundation, 21 Palmer Street, London SW1H 0AD
Draft programme
12.30 Registration and sandwich lunch
Chair: Kasia JURCZAK, Industrial Relations and
Workplace Developments Unit, Eurofound
14.00 Welcome by the project team
14.15 Keynote speech: Siemens Generation 21
Frank Stefan BECKER, Senior Consultant, Siemens Generation21 Universities, Corporate Communications and Government Affairs, Siemens International [abstract, pdf, 10kb] [presentation, pdf, 617kb]
DISCUSSION
15.00 Module 5 - SKILLS RECOGNITION AND VALIDATION
- French national presentation
- 'Validation des Acquis de l’Expérience' - A tool accompanying the career development
Stéphanie MOUCHOTTE-FRIESS, Training Project Manager, Veolia, France [presentation FR, pdf, 176kb] [presentation EN, pdf, 175kb]
DISCUSSION
16.00 Coffee Break
16.30 National presentations: Portugal [presentation, pdf, 96kb] and Slovenia [presentation, pdf, 511kb]
DISCUSSION
17.45 End of the first day
18.30 Dinner
Day 2: Thursday 6 November 2008
Chair: Isabella BILETTA, Industrial Relations and
Workplace Developments, Unit, Eurofound
09.00 National situation in the UK
- Trends in skills development in the UK
Francis GREEN, Department of Economics, University of Kent [presentation, pdf, 125kb] - Improving government performance on employment and skills
development in the UK
Mark SPILSBURY, Chief Economist, UK Commission for Employment and Skills [presentation, pdf, 169kb]
DISCUSSION
10.30 Coffee break
11.15 Module 6 - DEVELOPMENT OF SKILLS, LOCAL DEVELOPMENT AND PARTNERSHIPS
National presentations from Spain [presentation, pdf, 184kb], Latvia [presentation, pdf, 382kb] and Poland
DISCUSSION
12.45 Lunch
14.15 Designing local skills strategies
- Designing local skills strategies – the OECD LEED perspective
Francesca FROY, Policy Analyst, OECD [presentation, pdf, 149kb] - The employer view of the UK skills system
Simon NATHAN, Senior Policy Adviser, Education & Skills, Confederation of British Industries (CBI) - London Skills Employment Board - Example of local cooperation for skills development
Stephen Evans, Director, Skills & Youth, London Development Agency [presentation, pdf, 110kb]
DISCUSSION
16.00 Coffee Break
16.30 Module 7 - FINANCING MECHANISMS
Chair: Marina PATRIARKA, Industrial Relations
and Workplace Developments Unit, Eurofound
National presentations from Slovakia [presentation, pdf, 138kb], Hungary [presentation, pdf, 277kb] and Germany [presentation, pdf, 371kb]
DISCUSSION
18.00 End of the day
Chair: Marina PATRIARKA, Industrial Relations
and Workplace Developments Unit, Eurofound
09.00 Module 7 - FINANCING MECHANISMS (continued)
- National presentation from Italy [presentation, pdf, 45kb]
- Financing VET in EU member states: cost-sharing schemes
Patrycja LIPINSKA, Research Manager, Cedefop [abstract, pdf, 10kb] [presentation, pdf, 153kb]
DISCUSSION
10.00 Module 8 - INDIVIDUAL TRAINING PATHS
Chair: Isabella BILETTA, Industrial Relations and
Workplace Developments Unit, Eurofound
- National presentations from the Netherlands [presentation, pdf, 255kb], Estonia [presentation, pdf, 82kb] and Finland [presentation, pdf, 417kb]
- Union learning – providing the missing ingredient in the recipe for skills
Ann JOSS, Strategic Support Officer, Unionlearn, UK [presentation, pdf, 64kb]
11.30 Coffee break
12.00 Groups workshops for Governments, Employers, Trade Unions
12.45 Closing speech: Future skill demands: the US perspective
Margaret HILTON, Senior Programme Officer, Centre for Education, Washington, USA [abstract, pdf, 11kb] [presentation, pdf, 577kb]
13.45 Closing remarks
14.00 End of the seminar