Enhancing support for higher level skills through the Chamber of Commerce in Leeds
This 12 month project will commence in October 2009 and will be led by Leeds Chamber of Commerce working with the University of Leeds and Leeds Metropolitan University.
The project will establish a higher education champion based within the business link at Leeds Chamber of Commerce. Their role will be to assist the Chamber to co-ordinate responses to the need for higher level skills and education provision in the employers in Leeds. In addition they will promote the value of developing higher level skills both as a response to the recession and to ensuring the city has the appropriate higher level skills for the future.
Outcomes created by the project will be:
> 6 work place progression agreements
> 2 EBTA initiatives
> A minimum of 50 employers engaged
> A minimum of 4 employer focus groups delivered
In addition to these hard outcomes, the overall benefit of the project will be to:
> develop improved relationships between higher education providers and the business community through the offices of the Leeds Chamber of Commerce
> contribute to the delivery of Leeds Skills Board’s approach to the City Region MAA
> contribute to the value added and sustainability of a higher level skills infrastructure within the Leeds Chamber of Commerce
For further details of this project contact Joanne Beaumont at j.e.beaumont@hud.ac.uk
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