Conference Contents
Learning Partnerships Managers and Co-ordinators' Conference
Summary of the Event
Malcolm Wicks, Minister for Lifelong Learning
John Harwood, Chief Executive of the Learning and Skills Council
A National Partner Perspective
Graham Brough, representing the TEC National Council
Councillor Richard Grant, representing the Local Government Association
Cynthia Hannah, DfEE
Towards the Learning & Skills Council
Professor Mike Campbell, Policy Research Institute, Leeds Metropolitan University
Towards the Learning & Skills Council
Peter Mucklow, DfEE
Marilyn Hawkins, LSC Executive Director designate for Lincolnshire and Rutland
Workshops
- Engaging the Voluntary and Community Sector
Kevin Brady, DfEE
(Alyson Malach, NIACE, was prevented from attending by bad weather)
- Engaging the Business Community
Dave Webber, BT Cellnet
(Helen Malton, Windsor EPB was unable to attend due to the bad weather)
- Intelligence Gathering & Action Planning
Georgina Cowen and John Rodger, York Consulting Ltd
- Developing Feedback Mechanisms/Learners' Fora
Steve Fountain, North London Learning Partnership
- Developing a Communications Strategy & Marketing the Partnership
Jenny Gorman, Dudley Learning Partnership
- Effective Partnership Management and Leadership
Andrew McCoshan, ECOTEC
Research & Consulting Ltd
- Adult and Community Learning
Jane Mardell, DfEE
Alan Noble, Buckinghamshire County Council
- Information, Advice and Guidance for Adults
Millar MacDonald, DfEE
- Developing the Learning Gateway
Bob McColm, DfEE
Peter Wong, Buckingham Careers Service
- Basic Skills and Engaging the Hard to Reach
Christine Townley, Basic Skills Agency
- Preparing for the Learning and Skills Council
Andrew McCoshan,
ECOTEC Research & Consulting Ltd
- Preparing for the Learning and Skills Council
Norman Atkin,
Wiltshire and Swindon Learning Partnership
GRAFFITI BOARD
A record of issues, questions and helpful suggestions from delegates at the Learning Partnerships Co-ordinators' Conference, October 2000
- No one seems very concerned that there is considerable research evidence that the current style of secondary education in England will not create lifelong learners. In fact the exact opposite!
Responses:
- we (Surrey) have a project where some school children are doing vocational taster courses at college to help with transition and to see opportunities
- not only the style of secondary education but also the limited measures of achievement of performance!
- Comments, please, on value-added by inclusion of voluntary/community sector, plus examples of difficulties experienced where you've tried to do it and failed (anthea.turner@boe.c-of-e.org.uk).
- We are hoping to use people who applied for ILAs (leavers & non leavers) to give us a learners' fora.
- Role of Coordinator:
- to challenge where there is comfort;
- to lead where there is stagnation;
- to manage where there is confusion;
- to praise where there is achievement.
- On intelligence gathering, etc, what needs to be done is not to see Learning Partnership data/information in isolation, but as part of the wider planning and monitoring process - and to link with economic/unsocial/health data - since all of these, as well as being direct indications of learning needs, are also where change allows, measures of progress, since active learning should contribute to progress in all these areas.
- Has a Partnership bid to ESF this year?
Responses:
- Norfolk LP
- N & W Lancs
- Slough LP
- Is any other Partnership a Limited Company?
Responses:
- Beds and Luton LP
- Surrey is going to be (I think)
- Is anyone else working with local authorities with community plans?
Responses:
- On Learning Fora, access communities via:
- SRB
- Pathways (Objective 1) groups
- Church groups
- Interest groups (eg friends of …)
- Residents and Tenants Associations etc
- Important for Partnerships to work together/join up at strategic level.
- How to engage large national employers? Appropriate government departments can help employers see essential reasons for them to become involved.
- Important to engage LSC personnel in appropriate regional/national meetings to avoid developing a "them and us" culture.
- Engaging the voluntary sector is very important at a variety of levels since they can provide direct learning, advice and guidance, mentoring support and are the only way of accessing some communities (Slough LP).
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