Seminar: Moving on up - Skills and social mobility, 28 April 2008
How can an EU skills agenda help achieve more and better jobs in a globalised economy?
The Delivering Global Europe seminar series is intended to encourage a British and European conversation about how we can ensure the EU delivers real value for UK and EU citizens.
Moving on up – Skills and social mobility
Date: 28 April 2008
Venue: British Embasssy, Stockholm
Participants included senior officials from UK, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Netherlands and France, and from the European Commission.
Discussions in the seminar
Subjects raised in the seminar included:
- the difficulty in forecasting future skills needs
- the challenge of striking the right balance between the provision of generic skills and the specific technical skills needed in individual sectors
- the importance of improving the status and quality of Vocational Education and Training
- how to effectively link education and employment
- the importance of improving generic skills such as numeracy, literacy and the broader science skills base to ensure future EU innovation capacity
- flexibility in the context of globalisation and demographic change.
- It was concluded that the development of human capital would need to be a key element of any future EU Strategy for Growth and Social Policy.
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