10 November 2011 – LSIS Regional Policy Seminar

The Principal and Deputy Principal attended an LSIS Regional Policy Seminar entitled Shaping and realising the vision for the future of FE and skills, the purpose of the seminar was to provide a forum for sector leaders in their regions to:

• consider emerging perspectives about the role and purpose of FE and skills in the evolving context of greater freedom and devolution;
• explore the implications of different visions and purposes within the regional and local context;
• discuss the implications for LSIS services and consider how LSIS might support sector leaders in realising these future roles and purposes; and
• inform LSIS’s strategic planning, including identifying further development, prototyping, research and evidence needed to support the sector into 2012 and beyond.