House of Commons - Re-skilling for recovery: After Leitch, implementing skills and training policies - Innovation, Universities, Science and Skills Committee

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Innovation, Universities, Science and Skills Committee - First Report
Re-skilling for recovery: After Leitch, implementing skills and training policies

Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 15 December 2008.

Contents

Terms of Reference

Summary
1  Introduction

Skills in the UK
Our inquiry
Our Report

Structure of Report

2  The Leitch Agenda

Principles

Skills and prosperity
Partnership
Demand-led

Leitch targets

Are the targets achievable?

Government implementation

Evaluation

Government vision

The Secretary of State's speech to the CBI, October 2008

3  Delivery structures and programmes

National structures: Learning and Skills Council

Regional structures
Regional Development Agencies
Sub-regional bodies
Sectoral and spatial planning at the sub-national level

Complexity
Devolution
Government programmes

Train to Gain
Apprenticeships
Qualifications reform

4  Employers: representation and engagement

Representative bodies

UKCES
Sector skills councils
Private sector organisations

Employer engagement and participation
Small businesses

5  Training providers

Role of Higher Education in the Leitch agenda

Employers and HEIs
Non-conventional courses
Co-funding courses
HEFCE: a regional role?
STEM graduates
Conclusion

Role of Further Education in the Leitch agenda
FE/HE regional collaboration
Joint funding of FE/HE?
Private sector providers and in-house training capacity

6  Individuals

Individual demand for training
Specific Government policies for individuals

Skills accounts
AACS
The right to request time to train

Lifelong learning
Role of the unions

7  Conclusion
Conclusions and recommendations
Annex: Government policy papers between July 2007 and September 2008
Appendix supplied by National Audit Office
Formal Minutes
Witnesses
List of written evidence
List of Reports from the Committee during the current Parliament

List of Oral and Written Evidence
Wednesday 14 May 2008
Wednesday 4 June 2008
Wednesday 25 June 2008
Wednesday 9 July 2008
Wednesday 8 October 2008
Written Evidence

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Prepared 16 January 2009