Skills for Life national conferences 2007

Monday 12 November, Royal Hotel, York.

Monday 19 November, International Conference Centre, Birmingham

Monday 26 November, QEII Centre, London

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The national Skills for Life conferences 2007 are to be held in York, Birmingham and London in November. The theme of this year's conferences is “World Class Skills: the road to 2020”. This year's conference will focus on how we can work together to deliver the UK skills agenda as set out in the Leitch report in 2006 and now central to the Government's skills policy at the centre of which sits Skills for Life.

There will be a particular focus on numeracy, on engaging employers, embedding Skills for Life and progression up to and beyond level 2. Social inclusion, also critical to DIUS's vision of Skills for Life, now and in the years to come, will also be a strong feature of the conferences.

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The conferences, chaired by Maggie Semple OBE, will be addressed by John Denham, Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, Bill Rammell, Minister of State for Lifelong Learning, Further and Higher Education and David Lammy, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Skills. Among the other speakers will be employer-champions of the Skills for Life programme, trade union leaders and authors of the hugely successful Quick Reads series for adults.

The conferences will also:

• provide a forum for practitioners to discuss and contribute to the future direction of the strategy;
• share the good practice that many providers have developed;
• showcase some of the most successful Skills for Life projects; and
• highlight key messages from research for policy and practice.

Workshops on a number of key topics will be staged at each conferences.  For further details please see the workshop page of the website.