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FE & Skills Collective’s “Bridging Policy and Pedagogy: Preparing educators and leaders for a stronger skills system” with 51¸£ÀûÉç and FE News

Education and Training Foundation (51¸£ÀûÉç) and FE News are working together in partnership to invite you to join us for a new FE and Skills Collective.

We have a new Government, who are all about Change! We have a new focus on Skills and a new Skills system on the way. This sounds exciting, but how do we ensure we equip our leaders and educators to deliver these changes?

Working in partnership, 51¸£ÀûÉç and FE News are organising, “Bridging Policy and Pedagogy: Preparing Educators and Leaders for a Stronger Skills System.”, an event to prepare us for the upcoming changes.

This event is for Educators, Leaders, Researchers and Policy Makers. This is not a passive chalk and talk event, but one where your voice and opinion matter. You will get to roll up your sleeves and be fully involved on the day, helping to shape a report to assist the sector in responding to the changes in our Skills system.

The format of the day is a knowledge exchange and ‘scene setting’ in the morning, followed by a collaborative afternoon of collective intelligence gathering. Educators and leaders will work in groups to share ideas and make recommendations for the report.

This event is designed to help everyone in the FE and Skills sector. Attendees will include representatives from Further Education, Skills, Apprenticeships (FE colleges and Independent Training Providers), Work Based Learning, Lifelong Learning, Prison Education, the Work Based Learning side of Higher Education, Employer Providers, and Awarding Organisations. Together, we will explore how we can develop our workforce to deliver the new Skills system.

This is a flipped conference, where we get to exchange ideas and knowledge, while also developing an impactful report. The aim is to bring the sector together and equip the entire FE and Skills sector for the changes that are coming and happening quickly.

This event is open to a maximum of 100 people.

Join us on the 10th of October in Birmingham and help us support the entire Skills sector through these rapidly approaching changes.

Help shape the report and guide how the sector reacts and prepares for the evolving Skills system.

Don’t miss this opportunity to be at the forefront of shaping our collective response and delivery of our new skills system.

Secure your spot now for this exclusive, limited-capacity event. Together, we’ll forge a path forward in this exciting new era of skills development!

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Agenda

TIME	SESSION	SPEAKERS
9.30am-9.45am	Welcome from hosts	Katerina Kolyva, CEO, 51¸£ÀûÉç, and Gavin O’Meara, CEO, FE News
9.30am-9.45am	Bridging the gap between policy and pedagogy – building a stronger FE and Skills system and unlocking the potential of the country’s workforce	Katerina Kolyva, CEO, 51¸£ÀûÉç
9.45am-11am	Panel 1 – Opportunities – Localised decision making for a stronger skills system	Dr Vikki Smith, Executive Director – Education and Standards, 51¸£ÀûÉç (Chair); Kate Shoesmith, Deputy CEO, REC; Eddie Playfair, Senior Policy Manager, AoC; Sally Alexander, CEO, Milton Keynes College; Yousuf Ibrahim, Assistant Principal, Cardiff and Vale College
11am-11.15am	Break
11.15am-12.30pm	Panel 2 – Opportunities – National decision making for a stronger skills system	Dr Katerina Kolyva, CEO, 51¸£ÀûÉç (Chair); Stephen Evans, CEO, Learning and Work Institute; Ben Rowland, CEO, AELP; Phillip Le Feurve, COO, NCFE; Ben Blackledge, CEO, Worldskills UK; Anna Ambrose, Director, Workwhile IPPR
12.30pm-12.50pm	Q&A with Jennifer Coupland	Jennifer Coupland, CEO, IfATE
12.50pm-1.45pm	Lunch
1.45pm-3pm	Collective sessions (break 2.15pm-2.30pm)
	Local, national and global skills collective session	Katerina Kolyva, CEO, 51¸£ÀûÉç and Paul Granger
	Skills and employability plans – fuel the industrial strategy	Olly Newton, Executive Director, Edge and Chris Cherry
	Role of high-quality teaching in delivering the skills of today and tomorrow	Vikki Smith, Executive Director – Education and Standards, 51¸£ÀûÉç and Matt O’Leary, Professor of Education, Birmingham City University
	Challenges of dual professionalism	Lou Mycroft, Co-Director, Fe Constellations and JoyFE and Paul Tully, Associate Director – Policy and Research, 51¸£ÀûÉç
	Employability, social mobility and growth	Suzie Branch-Haddow, Vice Principal – External Development, Birmingham Metropolitan College and Holly Papworth, Head of Policy, Edge
3pm-3.45pm	Feedback from scene setters and facilitators
3.45pm-4pm	Closing remarks and departure