British Council IBD Team

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Themes

Programme

List of delegates

Joining instructions for delegates

Symposium 1: Strategic dialogues on international education & employability

Themes

Policy drivers, key players

Developing a skilled workforce, including:

The need for higher level skills in the workforce
The role of Higher Education in increasing the skills of the workforce
Developing soft or essential skills and implications for the curriculum
Understanding and acting on national policy; employer and student needs, and expectations
The role of industry in shaping the policy, curriculum and funding of education
Employer expectations: what they want from education systems
Student expectations: what the student or customer wants and needs

Practical approaches

Developing relevant and appropriate learning opportunities, including:

Delivering flexible work based learning solutions
How employers and providers can work together to respond to this challenge
Employers’ needs – engaging employers in developing learning opportunities
Re-skilling working people for new careers and lifelong learning

Enabling frameworks

Policy and qualifications, frameworks and systems:

What can be done at policy level to enable this complex issue
Recognition and accreditation issues

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