Linking Business and Education
Introduction
Linking Business wih Education is a network group for businesses, schools, colleges, representative and interest groups to develop ways to help young people to understand the labour market (particularly the local labour market) and their role in it.
As a group we engage in three activities:
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Influencing strategic thinking across Oxfordshire, through our links to the Oxfordshire Skills Board and the Oxford City Region Enteprrise Partnership
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Developing tools and resources that enable business and education to work together more effectively
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To share practice and network between members
Membership is open to any interested party and we meet quarterly.
30th March 2011
Notes of Meeting
We outlined the purpose of the group, which can be summarised by the diagram
Alison Robb-Webb reported on the very successful Careersfest which was held in January - presentation
Ruth Wigham explained how OCVC develop Enterprise - presentation
Vikki Gledhill outlined the ways in which the EBP will continue to operate - presentation
The group discussed how to move forward and concluded that we should:
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Spend time understanding exactly what businesses wanted from education and vice versa
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Prioritise work on behaviours, attitudes and mindsets
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Focus on the efectiveness of work experience
