Join us for our next in-person Skills Working Group meeting ,which will explore the international mobility of skilled trades people relevant to the green transition. This meeting will bring together members of BEI and the D Group with guest speaker Helen Dempster, Co-Director, Migration and Displacement and Policy Fellow, Center for Global Development.

This session will explore three main themes, with participants encouraged to contribute their own views and experience to the discussion:

1)     Standardising skills and qualification requirements

-         How can this be achieved across priority sectors?

-         What does that look like in practice at the moment, both within the UK and abroad?

2)     Accrediting international training providers

-         How do you work with stakeholders (e.g. training providers, provincial, and national governments) in identifying priority international markets?

-         How do you identify high-performing training providers and accredit them?

-         What are the barriers to progress?

3)     Identifying priority markets

-         Which markets offer the most opportunity, according to data on demographic change; existing skill and education levels; and existing linkages with UK education providers?

-         Where and how could UK immigration policy open doors for international green-skilled workers?

-         How can international accreditation improve the UK’s soft power abroad?

Agenda:

09:00 – 09:30 Arrival and Networking over tea and coffee

09:30 – 11:00 Session

-         Brief opening remarks from Helen Dempster

-         Roundtable discussion and workshop session focused on three main themes

11:00 – 12:00 Networking over tea and coffee

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