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Integrating Skills for Life and Employability
A Continuing Professional Development Event
| Date: | Thursday 11 October 2007 |
| Venue: | The Abbey Community Centre, 34 Great Smith Street, Westminster, London SW1P 3BU |
| Ref: | C15-70/10/07 |
| Fee*: | £150 (includes lunch, tea/coffee) NB: NIACE does not charge VAT on conference and course fees |
[Background & Aims] [Audience] [Programme]
Background
Attaining an employment rate of 80% is a challenging target for Government, especially when a declining cohort of young people receives the largest share of the public funding for education and training. Employability skills are central to gaining and keeping employment as well as career progression. However, it has not always been easy to define these skills and assess their impact on productivity and skills development. The lack of such skills, particularly in elementary entry level occupations, is acknowledged as one reason for the UK's 'long tail of underachievement’.
There are compelling reasons to work together to ensure we integrate the Skills for Life strategy with employability in order to meet the Leitch agenda and to successfully meet the needs of people who are trapped in low-skilled, poorly-paid jobs or excluded from the labour market through lack of skills in literacy, language or numeracy.
There is a need to raise our understanding of and engagement with employability training provision and provide effective information to key stakeholders.
The event aims to:
 | exchange ideas |
| learn from each other about what works |
| reflect on practice |
| hear about the range of resources available. |
Participants will gain:
| an increased knowledge and understanding of the issues |
| an opportunity to share practice. |
Following attendance at this conference, participants will be able to:
| reflect on current practice |
| debate issues |
| explore new ways of working together. |
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Audience
The event will be of particular interest to:
| Anyone who is interested in improving literacy, language, numeracy and employability skills including: |
| Information, Advice and Guidance staff |
| Jobcentre Plus staff |
| Learning and Skills Councils |
| Literacy, Language and Numeracy (LLN) Teachers |
| Sector Skills Councils |
| Train to Gain brokers |
| Union Learning Reps |
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Programme
| A continuing professional development event for Literacy, Language and Numeracy teachers, Union Learning reps, Train to Gain brokers, IAG staff and Sector Skills staff. | |
| 09:30 | Arrival and registration (tea/coffee available) |
| 10:00 | Welcome and introduction Sue Southwood, Development Officer for Literacy, Language and Numeracy in the Workplace – NIACE |
| 10:05 | Round table discussions: what are the key issues? |
| 10:45 | Effective Practice Seminar 1: Learning Lift Off – a whole-organisation approach to learning Winners of the Business in the Community Award Jenny Webber, GMB and Hilary Hale, Norfolk County Services |
| 11:45 | Workshops
1) Jobjunction – a flying start into employment! |
| 12:45 | Lunch |
| 13:30 | Effective Practice Seminar 2: Growing People – Morton’s of Horncastle Limited Michael Gill, Human Resource Manager |
| 14:30 | Workshops - repeated 1) Jobjunction – a flying start into employment! Susan Kilroy and learners from Jobcentre Plus in partnership with Birmingham International Airport 2) Speaking the language of employers Sharon Simpson and Tara Morris – Asset Skills 3) Widening the Workforce – the union perspective Jon Tennison, Unionlearn and Anne Hansen, NIACE 4) NOCN – Skills for Life, Employability and the Qualifications and Credit Framework Jill Matthews and Suzanne Jones – National Open College Network (NOCN) |
| 15:30 | Networking session (tea/coffee available) |
| 16:00 | Close of conference |
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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