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National Skills Forum and Associate Parliamentary Skills Group

Launch of "Open to ideas: essays on education and skills"

6th December 2011, House of Commons


Next month the Associate Parliamentary Skills Group will launch a collection of essays, penned by leading thinkers from across the education and skills sector. The essays offer up examples of innovative policy and practice and seek to bring new ideas and thinking to Parliamentary debate.

To mark the launch of the collection we will be holding a debate on how the media covers education and skills policy.

Speakers will include:

  • Nic Dakin MP, Co-Chair, Associate Parliamentary Skills Group (Chair)
  • Gerard Kelly, Editor, Times Educational Supplement
  • Toby Young, Journalist and Co-Founder of West London Free School
  • Richard Pring, former Director, Oxford University Department of Education; contributor to Open to Ideas
  • Further speaker TBC

To attend please email christopher.hall@policyconnect.org.uk

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