Bedford is being talked about in Whitehall and Westminster
twice this week - by Bedford College Principal and CEO Ian
Pryce.
He is speaking on the Future of Vocational
Education for 14 - 19 year olds on Tuesday January 24th and on
Monday January 30th he is speaking at the Public Accounts Committee
against bureaucracy in Further Education (FE).
Since taking over Bedford College a decade
ago, Ian has guided the organisation from good to great and it
is today one of the top FE colleges in the UK. Ian represents
the College and Bedford on a range of influential national
organisations which have advised successive Governments on
improving education. He has won awards for organisational
leadership and a CBE for his services to education. The
College, under his guidance, has won awards across the board for
supporting young people through Further Education into Higher
Education and into employment.
Background from Westminster Forum
Projects
The future of 14-19 vocational
education in England
TUESDAY, 24 JANUARY 2012
SIXTY ONE WHITEHALL, LONDON SW1A 2ET
THIS EVENT IS CPD CERTIFIED
Guest of Honour: Rt Hon the Lord Baker of
Dorking, Chair, Baker Dearing Educational Trust & Chair, Edge
Foundation
Westminster Forum Projects (WFP) operates a
group of influential, impartial and cross-party forums: the
Westminster Business Forum; the Westminster Education Forum; the
Westminster eForum; the Westminster Employment Forum; the
Westminster Energy, Environment & Transport Forum; the
Westminster Food & Nutrition Forum; the Westminster Health
Forum; the Westminster Higher Education Forum; the Westminster
Legal Policy Forum; the Westminster Media Forum; the Westminster
Social Policy Forum and the Policy Forum for Wales.
All the Westminster Forum Projects forums
enjoy substantial support and involvement from key stakeholders
within Parliament, government, regulatory bodies, industry,
consumer organisations and other interested groups. The forums
organise senior-level seminars on public policy in these sectors.
None of the forums has a policy agenda of its own, other than
simply to raise the quality of debate on public policy developments
and so create opportunities for informed discussion.
Accordingly each Westminster Forum Projects
forum is structured to facilitate the formulation of 'best' public
policy by providing policymakers and implementers, and those with
an interest in the issues, with a sense of the way different
stakeholder perspectives interrelate. Usually this is through
impartially-framed, inclusive discussion conducted either in public
or under the Chatham House Rule.
Forum events are frequently the platform for
major policy statements from senior Ministers and regulators,
Opposition spokesmen and leading opinion-formers in industry and
interest groups. Events regularly receive prominent coverage in the
national media and trade press.