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Open to Ideas: Essays on Education and Skills
6th December 2011
The National Skills Forum and Associate Parliamentary Skills Group has published Open to Ideas, a collection of essays on education and skills.
What is the future of vocational education? School-based, college-based, part of a cohesive curriculum offer? What should the character and personality of our college system be – Fordist factories producing job-ready workers or “Big Society” hubs acting as the foundations of vibrant communities? What will tomorrow’s universities look like? Will the system be driven by students, or will the system drive them out? With a high tide of youth unemployment washing over us, can skills policy provide any answers?
In Open to Ideas the National Skills Forum has brought together people from the education sector and beyond who have something to say about these issues. They question common assumptions, identify lessons learned from recent policy experiments and innovations, and suggest new approaches to policy and practice.
Contributions to the collection are grouped around five major themes
• Debate
• Economy
• Learning
• Systems
• International
Open to Ideas is an ongoing project of the Parliamentary Group. Going forward, every two months the Parliamentary Skills Group will be publishing additional chapters on this website. If you would like to contribute please get in touch.
Download the collection
The National Skills Forum and Associate Parliamentary Skills Group has published Open to Ideas, a collection of essays on education and skills.
What is the future of vocational education? School-based, college-based, part of a cohesive curriculum offer? What should the character and personality of our college system be – Fordist factories producing job-ready workers or “Big Society” hubs acting as the foundations of vibrant communities? What will tomorrow’s universities look like? Will the system be driven by students, or will the system drive them out? With a high tide of youth unemployment washing over us, can skills policy provide any answers?
In Open to Ideas the National Skills Forum has brought together people from the education sector and beyond who have something to say about these issues. They question common assumptions, identify lessons learned from recent policy experiments and innovations, and suggest new approaches to policy and practice.
Contributions to the collection are grouped around five major themes
• Debate
• Economy
• Learning
• Systems
• International
Open to Ideas is an ongoing project of the Parliamentary Group. Going forward, every two months the Parliamentary Skills Group will be publishing additional chapters on this website. If you would like to contribute please get in touch.
Download the collection
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