Social justice in hard times
This event will address the extent of, and the means by which, public policy in education, skills and learning can shape the distribution of pre-tax incomes in a more regionally balanced, socially just and environmentally equitable way.
Sessions:
- Improving the human capital of nations: Education and global competition
- Doing more with less? The future of education and learning in the UK
- Graduates we need? An education, skills and labour market agenda
- Education and social mobility – A conversation with Alan Milburn
- Cities and regions in the vanguard? Towards a dynamic regional growth agenda
Speakers:
- Andrew Adonis, Labour Peer and chair of the Adonis Growth Review,
- Andrew Carter, deputy chief executive, Centre for Cities,
- Mike Emmerich, chief executive, New Economy (Manchester),
- Ellen Hazelkorn, director of research and enterprise, and Dean of the Graduate Research School, Dublin Institute of Technology,
- Will Hutton, principal of Hertford College, Oxford University and chair of the Big Innovation Centre at The Work Foundation,
- Tim Leunig, ministerial policy advisor, UK Department of Education,
- Steve Machin, professor of Economics, University College London,
- Emran Mian, director of the Social Market Foundation,
- Alan Milburn, chair of the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission,
- Wendy Piatt, director general of The Russell Group of UK universities,
- Xavier Prats-Monné, deputy-director general of the Directorate-General for Education and Culture, European Commission,
- Bill Rammell, vice-chancellor of the University of Bedfordshire,
- Andreas Schleicher, deputy director for education and skills and special advisor on education policy to the OECD's secretary-general,
- Pam Tatlow, chief executive, million +.
More high-level speakers to be announced.
The agenda can be found online.
This event is being held in partnership with the University of Central Lancashire and the Samuel Lindow Foundation.