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Skills: Delivering a Demand Led System!
Tuesday 22nd April 2008, Galgorm Resort and Spa
View presentations from the LSDA NI Conference 2007
Catherine Bell (Deputy Secretary, Department for Employment and Learning) VIP Guest, Welcome Speech
Keynote addresses:
John Stone, Chief Executive, Learning and Skills Network (LSN) Improving Quality in a Demand Led System
Mitch Benson, Worldwide Managing Director of Education, Microsoft Corporation "If you are not criticised..." *
Video used at the beginning of Mitch Benson's presentation A Vision of Students Today
Gerri Fiala, Director of Workforce Research for the Workforce Development Strategies Group, National Centre on Education and the Economy (NCEE) Building a Demand Driven Skills System
Trevor Carson, Director, Learning and Skills Development Agency Northern Ireland (LSDA NI) Public Value, Shared Services and Workforce Development
Derek Longhurst, Chief Executive, Foundation Degree Forward (fdf) Demand Led Higher Education
Mike Campbell, Director of Research and Policy, UK Commission for Employment and Skills Skills for Prosperity in Tomorrow's World: The Demand Led Agenda and Northern Ireland
Dr. Bruce Leslie, Chancellor, The Alamo Community Colleges, Texas Delivering a Demand Led System in the U.S. the Alamo Community Colleges Approach *
Workshops:
(ii) Harnessing Technology for Teaching and Learning:Linking Innovation to Practice. Mitch benson (Microsoft Corporation), Tom Heaney (Northern Regional College) and Martin Rosner and Sue Abrines (Ealing, Hammersmith & West London College) *
(iii) Teaching and Learning at The Centre, Heather Urquhart (Cumbernauld College) and Dr. Bruce Leslie (The Alamo Community Colleges) *
(iv) Mergers: Learning from experience, Robert Conlon (Learning and Development Consultant) and Natasha Calvert (LSN Researcher)
(v) Five Nations Policy Forum: Learning from reflection at policy level, John Stone (LSN), Brian Lister (SFEU), Ed Sallis (Highlands College Jersey)*, Dermot Douglas (Institutes of Technology Ireland) and Bryn Davies (College Ystrad Mynach)
(vi) College Governance: The challenge of a new landscape, Neil Fletcher (Strategy in Education Ltd)
(vii) Demand Led Performance Management, Shaun Lincoln (Leadership & Management Unit, LSN)
*Please note: Some of the presentations available are very large in file size, people using a dial up connection should note that the presentations will take longer to download.