To Sustainability and Beyond

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To Sustainability and Beyond

• Debbie Watson
• Director of Policy Innovation
• 31st March 2009

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LSC Strategy to 2010 From Here to Sustainability

• Vision
• The learning and skills sector will proactively
  commit and contribute to sustainable development
  through
• its management of resources
• the learning opportunities it delivers
• its engagement with communities and business

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LSC Strategy to 2010 From Here to Sustainability

• Progress Report
• Recognise the contribution of mainstream work
• Significant progress has been made in some areas
  but not in others
• Measures of progress need clarifying
• Changing context
• Gaps in the strategy

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Beyond 2010
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A new vision or more of the same?

• Management of resources
• Learning opportunities
• Engagement with communities and business
• PLUS
• Leadership

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Whose vision is it anyway?

• Provider organisations in the sector
• Learning and Skills Improvement Service
• Ofsted
• DIUS/DCSF/Local Authorities
• Most importantly, individual providers
• Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
  committed citizens can change the world. Indeed
  it is the only thing that ever does
• Margaret Mead