Invitation – Meeting the skills needs of Oxfordshire

ADRIAN Lockwood, Chair of the Oxfordshire Skills Board, will speak to businesses in Thame about the skills strategy for Oxfordshire, at a meeting to be held at Lord Williams’s Upper School, at 8am on Monday, March 7.

Adrian Lockwood – image courtesy of www.banburyinbusiness.co.uk

The role of the Oxfordshire Skills Board is to bring together public and private employers, secondary, further and higher education skills providers and stakeholder groups and works closely with the Oxfordshire Local Enterprise Partnership. The Board aims to achieve improvements in the skills available to Oxfordshire’s employers, and the learning opportunities available to students, residents and the workforce.

If you are interested to learn more about the wider picture of economic growth in Oxfordshire, the plans for skills development and how this might impact on Thame, then this event is for you.

Nicky Stallwood, Personal Development Curriculum Manager at Lord Williams’s School, who runs a Business Breakfast meeting three times a year, invited Adrian Lockwood to go to the March meeting, and has extended the invitation to anyone in Thame who has any involvment in meeting the skills needs of the local economy.

Anyone who would like to attend is invited to contact Nicky by February 29, via n.stallwood@lordwilliams.oxon.sch.uk, to confirm a place.