Roundtable - Practical Learning

Breaking down the barriers to success

Despite many initiatives over the past 100 years, academic and vocational pathways to learning have remained largely separate, with the academic route seen as being for "able" students and the vocational route for the "less able". This round-table discussion, held on 26 April and organised by the New Statesman in conjunction with Edge, the independent charitable foundation campaigning for practical learning, explored the issues that allow this perception to persist and how we need to challenge it if Britain is to remain competitive.


Participants
Chris Banks Cbe
Chairman, Learning And Skills Council

Martin Bright (Chair)
Political Editor, New Statesman; Former Education Correspondent, Observer

Mark Fisher
Chief Executive, Sector Skills Development Agency

Richard Hamer
Education Partnership Director, Bae Systems

Jerry Jarvis
Managing Director, Edexcel Ltd

Lord Sandy Leitch
The Leitch Review Of Skills 2006, Hm Treasury; Former Chairman, Zurich Financial Services

Dr Ann Limb
Chair, Student Volunteering England

Spencer Neal
Publisher, New Statesman

Murziline Parchment
Director Of Major Projects And Service Delivery, Mayor's Office, Gla

Andy Powell
Chief Executive, Edge

M T Rainey
Former Co-Chief Executive And Founder, Rainey Kelly Campbell Roalfe/Y&R

Bill Rammell Mp
Minister For Lifelong Learning, Further And Higher Education, Dfes

Professor Simon Roodhouse
Chief Operating Officer, University Vocational Awards Council

Dr Leigh Sandals
Head Of Education, Prime Minister's Delivery Unit, Cabinet Office

Liz Smith Obe
Director, Tuc's Unionlearn

Professor Michael Totterdell
Director, Institute Of Education, Manchester Metropolitan University

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