Improving Skills: Economic or Social Imperative?

Improving Skills: Economic or Social Imperative?

Should skills policy focus on increasing the economic competitiveness of the UK or should it be used to tackle social exclusion and increase social mobility? Join us for lunch, when we will look at how different approaches affect government policies for skills and education?

Note: This event is not taking place in the security zone, so you do not need a Conference pass to attend.

Speakers Include: Rt Hon John Denham MP (Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills), Jonathan Kestenbaum (Chief Executive, NESTA), Sasha Callaghan (President, UCU) Polly Curtis (Education Editor, Guardian)

Date: Tuesday 23^rd September

Time: 12.45pm till 2pm (lunch available from 12.15pm)

Location: Jury’s Inn, Manchester

 

 

 

Tuesday, September 23, 2008 from 12:45 PM - 2:00 PM (GMT)

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Jury’s Inn, Manchester
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NESTA is the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts. We are the largest single endowment devoted exclusively to supporting talent, innovation and creativity in the UK. Our mission is to transform the UK’s capacity for innovation. We invest in early stage companies, inform innovation policy and encourage a culture that helps innovation to flourish.

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