SkillsActive conference and AGM

The skills conference and AGM at Hampden Park on Friday 4 November 2005 gives an excellent opportunity to have a short session to view the proposed standards and to take views and suggestions on them from sector employers and other industry colleagues.

We will also take the opportunity to share with colleagues the wide range of highly effective uses for national Occupational Standards (NOS) and the role and importance of NOS is in the bigger scheme of skills and qualifications development.

The revised draft standards can be found, as part of the consultation, on the SkillsActive website at: www.skillsactive.com/promotionlist/outdoorspromotion

For specific queries and information related to the Outdoors and this consultation, please contact Peter Thompson, SkillsActive UK Outdoors Development Manager.

Program of the day

• 10:30 - 11:00 Registration and coffee
• 11:00 - 11.05 Introduction to the day - John Zimny, chair of SkillsActive Scotland
• 11:05 - 11:15 Welcome to Hampden - Walter Smith, manager of the Scotland football team
• 11:15 - 11:35 Sector skills agreements - Aileen Ponton, Sector Skills Development Agency
• 11:35 - 12:05 SkillsActive Scotland - stage 1 research update - Alastair McGhee, Knowledge Partnership
• 12:05 - 12:25 Employer's group structures - Pam Scott, SkillsActive Scotland
• 12:25 - 13:00 annual general meeting
• 13:00 - 14:00 lunch
• 14:00 - 14:15 Sector skills agreements - next stages - Stephen Studd, CEO SkillsActive
• 14:15 - 15:30 Sector focus / discussion groups
• 15:30 - 15:50 Feedback and the way forward - Ashley Pringle, head of home country development, SkillsActive
• 15: 50           Close and tour of Hampden Stadium

 If you would like to attend please could you contact Joan Beattie. Also there is an opportunity to have a tour of Hampden and if you could let Joan know if you want to do this too, we need to know numbers.