Skills for the Low Carbon Economy
Think Up was commissioned by Podium Skills London to design a facilitate a workshop to investigate how FE colleges could provide the skills training that London needs to develop the low-carbon capital of the future. The event took place at Eversheds on 29th March. The workshop, being highly participative , was based on the Greengaged model of event delivery: a series of highly interactive working groups punctuated by short presentations from experts.
Present at the event were representatives from the LDA, LSC, SummitSkills, ConstructionSkills and thirteen FE colleges.
Professor Sa’ad medhat, of the New Engineering Foundation, spoke about how innovation is being supported in the delivery of low-carbon skills development. Martin Watson, of the Building Research Establishment, described the technologies that the workforce of the future would need to be able to deliver. Ed McCann, Director of Think Up, gives Think Up’s analysis of whole-life learning and the role that FE can play.
The event was hosted by Think Up Associate Sheila Hoile who gathered the outcomes from the workshop as captured on multi-coloured post-it notes, and who will be writing a report of the recommendations from this workshop. This report will be available for download from this website when it is ready.
