Education and Skills Policy Group
Education and skills are core to our business performance. Competence in business begins with being able. Ability comes from training and learning.
The Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce Education and Skills Policy Group meet regularly and engage in a robust way with the issue surrounding the future of people skills in business.
The Group has members representing many of Edinburgh's leading Education establishments and businesses. We are currently strengthening the group with more participants from commerce and industry, and are grateful for the input of Chamber members Baillie Gifford who have done much to advance the group through hosting and contacts.
Our main aim is to make sure that the Edinburgh workforce is as well-educated and equipped as they need to be to compete in a fast-paced modern world. To ensure this we ask how businesses can work together with learning and training providers to:
- Grow the business
- Develop the employees
- Ensure a supply of appropriately qualified recruits
- Ensure that we contribute to the economic development of the region
- Language teaching
- Capitalising on the value of migrant workers
- Identifying and publicising sectors with evident skills shortages
- Work experience opportunities of lasting value for students
- Internationals standards for vocational qualifications
- Removing the hierarchy between 'academic' and 'vocational' to promote equal value
- Supporting and promoting research, development and innovation
- Buttressing new emergent technologies and their market potential
- Promoting the value of the disciplines of science, mathematics and engineering
- Modelling best practice in enlightening young people about careers in business
The group is currently undergoing a transformation of sorts - we will keep this page updated as we evolve!
Minutes
Please click the links below for PDF versions of minutes of previous Education and Skills Policy Group meetings:
