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The National Skills Forum is a not-for-profit membership organisation which works in partnership with the Associate Parliamentary Skills Group (APSG) and the Skills Commission to raise the profile and status of skills in the UK. We bring together Parliament, business and the skills sector to promote and develop effective skills policy as a central means of personal and economic development for the 21st Century.
Research

Doing Things Differently: Step Changes in Skills & Inclusion focuses on the impact of skills policy on three disproportionately excluded groups: offenders and ex-offenders; people with disabilities; and black and minority ethnic learners.
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Black and Minority Ethnic Learners
Offenders & Ex-Offenders
People with Disabilities
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Gordon Marsden MP
Chair, Associate Parliamentary Skills Group

Baroness Sharp of Guildford
Co-Vice Chair, Associate Parliamentary Skills Group
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News
BIS launches skills consultations
22/07/2010
BIS has published 2 consultation documents on the future of skills and further education to inform the upcoming White Paper.
New MP calls for Royal Society of Apprentices
21/07/2010
Conservative MP Robert Halfon, tables an EDM calling for the creation of a Royal Society of Apprentices.
Hayes speaks at ALP conference
14/07/2010
Skills Minister, John Hayes, speaks at the Association of Learning Provider's summer conference.
Parliamentary Select Committees up and running
12/07/10
The House of Commons has appointed members to the BIS and Education Select Committees.
National Skills Forum hosts their Summer Party
06/07/2010
Skills Minister, John Hayes, and Chief Executive of UKCES, Chris Humphries, speak at the NSF annual summer party.
New MP to take on apprentice
05/07/2010


