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FE and Urban Renewal: Partnerships for Success
| Date: | Thursday 12 October 2006 |
| Venue: | Abbey Community Centre, Westminster, London SW1P 3BU |
| Ref: | C1391/10/06 |
[Background] [Aims] [Audience] [Programme]
Background
Regeneration is all about renewal, changing things for the better. Colleges have a major role to play in their communities - creating opportunity, providing skills, stimulating demand.
Partnerships are crucial - with local authorities, with voluntary organisations, with employers. Urban renewal is about social inclusion, and the role of colleges in widening participation and reaching reluctant learners is a vital strength.
This is where the Skills Agenda and social inclusion are inextricably linked, and the experience of the colleges in both areas, of skills development and the provision of access, needs to be fully mobilised and utilised. As the report from Lord (Richard) Rogers emphasised in "Towards a Strong Urban Renaissance", (published November 2005) social wellbeing is a vital ingredient of any successful community. Further education, as one of the best-regarded and most successful of public services in this country, has a key role to play in creating that success through improving the skills base of both vocational and soft skills and through securing active involvement.
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Aims
The conference is unique in putting focus on the role of colleges in supporting and invigorating urban renewal, to the benefit of communities and individuals. It will:
 | Seek to identify the key issues and the critical success factors |
| Emphasise the crucial importance of the ‘soft’skills: focus on upskilling people technically alone does not deliver sustainable communities |
| Present examples of best practice from local authorities and from further education |
| Present examples of how colleges can work with the voluntary and community sector in engaging hard to reach learners |
| Offer an opportunity for participants to contribute to a vital debate |
| Feature presentations on the immense challenges and opportunities provided by the necessary regeneration of East London, kick-started by the 2012 Olympics. |
The work which will be described goes to the heart of the successful college's mission, and will provide valuable stimulation for the work of delegates and their colleagues.
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Audience
The conference will be of interest to all those with an interest in Regeneration, Renewal, Skilling for Sustainable Communities and Partnership-working.
The conference is geared particularly towards Further Education institutions and colleges and the partners they work with: Local Authorities, Voluntary Organisations, Employers and Statutory Organisations.
| Business Support Organisations |
| Businesses and Employers |
| Community Groups |
| Education Business Links |
| Employment Service |
| FE Colleges |
| Government Departments with responsibilities for education, skills and economic development |
| Jobcentre Plus |
| Learning and Skills Councils |
| Learning Partnerships |
| Local Educational Authorities |
| nextstep |
| Organisations supporting equality of opportunity and social inclusion |
| Professional associations |
| Regeneration Agencies |
| Regional Development Agencies |
| School Sixth Forms |
| Sector Skills Councils |
| Trade Unions |
| Voluntary Groups |
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Programme
| 09:45 | Arrival and Registration (Tea/Coffee available) |
| 10:15 | Welcome and Introduction to the
Day Chair: Colin Flint, Associate Director (Further Education), NIACE |
| 10:30 | Keynote Address - Urban Renewal
and Localism: Local authorities and FE working in partnership Kiran Dhillon, Senior Researcher, New Local Government Network |
| 11:00 | Questions to the speaker |
| 11:10 | Regeneration and the Olympics:
the role of FE Martin Tolhurst, Principal and Chief Executive, Newham College of Further Education |
| 11:30 | Skills and Partnerships for
regeneration in the Durham coalfields Joanna Tait, Principal and Chief Executive, Bishop Auckland College |
| 11:50 | Questions to speakers |
| 12:00 | Tea/Coffee Break |
| 12:20 | Round Table discussions |
| 12:50 | Feedback to the Chair |
| 13:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 | The LSC and regeneration:
supporting colleges Mary Conneely, Regional Director – Regeneration London, LSC |
| 14:30 | FE and Voluntary Organisations
working in Partnership Janice Marks, Head of Agency, Federation for Community Development Learning |
| 14:50 | Skills and Adult Learning for
Better Futures Siobhan Saunders, Head of Adult Learning & Skills Development – Economic Regeneration, Halton Borough Council |
| 15:10 | Regeneration and Students – a
case study Jane Weatherby, Tutor, Northern College |
| 15:25 | Questions to speakers |
| 15:35 | Round Table discussions |
| 15:55 | Closing Comments |
| 16:00 | Close of Conference (Tea/Coffee available) |
This programme is correct at the time of going to press. The organisers reserve the right to make changes to the published programme in the event of one or more of the advertised speakers being unable to attend. Delegates will have no claim against NIACE in respect of such changes.
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