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Level 3 Skills - Challenge for the South West

Duration: 05 September 2006 to 17 October 2006

As part of the Healthy Labour Market review 2006 process, SLIM conducted a “Review of Level 3 Skills” in the region. This review informs the work of the Regional Skills Partnership, for which Level 3 skills is an important issue.

Level 3 skills are seen as critical in terms of future prosperity, yet it is also an area where the UK lags behind its economic competitors and where our employers report skills gaps.

There was a workshop on the 17th October 2006 at Dillington House.

The final report (4.8MB) and the executive summary (1.5MB) are available to download.

THEME ACTIVITIES
SLIM Learning Themes bring practitioners, researchers and policy makers together face to face and on-line to exchange ideas, practice and details of what works, where and why. During Theme SLIM researchers:

identify, summarise and contextualise research for participants

interview policy makers

identify projects demonstrating good practice and write these up as case studies and

facilitate an on-line discussion

Resources will be highlighted during an on-line discussion and made available through our website at www.swslim.org.uk.

This Theme culminated in a workshop bringing together participants to reflect on the findings and discussion and to develop recommendations for our Final Report. This will be distributed widely in the region

Research briefs, summarising our research and findings are available.

Download the bulletin which introduced the Theme.

The draft agenda is also available.

For further information please email swslim@exeter.ac.uk