The government is looking to improve productivity and growth through a more responsive and modern post-16 skills system, including emphasising place-based upskilling through working with local business and civic leaders and bridging the academic-vocational divide with a more flexible tertiary system.

With universities facing real financial pressures how can higher and further education help deliver the party's new skills landscape to be set out in the forthcoming white paper?

Join The Policy Institute at King’s College London and the Education and Training Foundation for a discussion of Labour's plans, including hearing from the Minister for Skills, Baroness Jacqui Smith and a panel from across the tertiary sector. 

 

Panel

• The Rt Hon. The Baroness Smith of Malvern, Minister of State (Minister for Skills) Department for Education

• The Rt Hon. The Baroness Hodge of Barking, former Minister of State (Education and Skills) (Lifelong Learning, Further and Higher Education)

• Professor Rachel Mills, Senior Vice- President (Academic), King’s College London 

• Katerina Kolyva, Chief Executive Officer, Education and Training Foundation (ETF)

• Professor Bobby Duffy, Director, the Policy Institute at King’s College London (chair)