Meetings with Stakeholder Organisations
During the early stages of the Review, the Review Team visited a number of stakeholder organisations seeking their views on the difference colleges make. These stakeholders were:
1. Routes to Work, Hamilton
2. Upstairs Kids Club Nursery, Cambuslang
3. Changing Places, Cambuslang
4. Princes Trust
5. Contract Services, Dundee City Council
6. Cyclacel Ltd, Dundee
7. Education Services, Dundee City Council
8. learndirect scotland
9. West Lothian Economic Partnership
10. Communities of Practice - Human Resource Practioners Forum
11. STUC - Health and Safety Training Course
12. Centre for Research in Lifelong Learning, Glasgow Caledonian University
13. BRITE Centre
14. Scottish Local Authority Development Enterprise
The notes of these meetings are available here.
Meetings with College Principals
During the early stages of the Review, the Review Team visited 14 colleges across the length and breadth of Scotland. These colleges were:
Ø West Lothian College
Ø Aberdeen College
Ø Banff and Buchan College
Ø South Lanarkshire College
Ø Motherwell College
Ø Dundee College
Ø Forth Valley College
Ø James Watt College
Ø Glasgow Metropolitan College
Ø Elmwood College
Ø Dumfries and Galloway College
Ø Barony College
Ø Jewel and Esk Valley College
Ø Anniesland College
At these meetings principals, and in some instances senior management, provided their initial thoughts on how the review team should approach the four workstreams and suggested key stakeholders who could help identify the difference colleges make. These meetings were extremely helpful to the review team in developing ideas for taking the review forward and in identifying some of the key challenges and opportunities for the sector.
The notes of these meetings can be found here
Open Space Futures Events - May 2006
At the beginning of May, the Scottish Executive ran two open space events on the long-term future of further and higher education provision in Scotland. These two events were designed to inform the Review of Scotlands' Colleges and the HE Futures project. Participants at the first event were largely drawn from those working in and for the two sectors, while the second event was focussed on those from outside the sectors, but with an interest in their future direction.
Both events were very informal with participants devising the agenda themselves and participants expressing their views on the relative priority of issues identified during the day, through a simple voting system. The attached papers are an unedited summary of the issues identified and the votes attracted by each.
Tuesday 2nd May 2006
Friday 5th May 2006