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First meeting of high level Education and Skills Panel to advise the Engineering and Technology Board (ETB)

Tuesday 29 April 2008

Today (29 April 2008), the Engineering and Technology Board (ETB)’s new 15-strong Education and Skills Panel met for the first time under the Chairmanship of Professor Christopher Snowden, Vice Chancellor and Chief Executive of the University of Surrey.

This new high-level Education and Skills Panel will advise the ETB on promoting and enhancing engineering and technology education and training at all levels, by:

  • Providing guidance on matters related to STEM Education & Skills.
  • Providing insight, advice and future strategic options on the supply and demand of STEM skills in order to enable it to make well informed decisions.
  • Acting as ambassadors and lobbyists on behalf of the Engineering and Technology Board within Government, schools, HE/FE, SSC’s, Regional Development Agencies, Employers and other relevant stakeholders.
  • Supporting and receiving relevant updates and reports on ETB projects.
  • Helping access potential partnership funding and/ or support for relevant future ETB activity

Professor Derek Bell, Chief Executive of the Association for Science Education, is the Panel’s Vice Chair.

The other thirteen panellists are: Professor Helen Atkinson, Dr Christine Braddock, Sir Anthony Cleaver, William Divine, Dame Ann Dowling, Professor Kel Fidler, Bob Gibbon, Richard Green, Bill Harrison; Professor John Holman, Professor Sir John O’Reilly, Professor Baroness Diana Warwick and Professor John Wood. Dr Anil Kumar, the ETB’s Director of Education and Skills is providing the Secretariat. (More information on the panel members can be found below.)

Sir Anthony Cleaver, Chairman of the ETB, said: "We have convened this high-level Education and Skills Panel to encourage and facilitate better co-ordination across Professional Engineering Institutions, education and training providers and the engineering community as a whole. We believe the Panel’s depth and breadth of experience will enhance the ETB’s contribution to improving education and skills provision for the benefit of UK Plc."

Professor Snowden, Chair of the Education and Skills Panel, Vice Chancellor and Chief Executive of the University of Surrey, said: "I am delighted to Chair the Engineering and Technology Board’s Education and Skills Panel, providing guidance, advice and future direction on STEM Education & Skills."

For further information please contact: Laura Marsh, Senior Communications Executive, the ETB, Tel: 020 3206 0444 / 07887 943 017 or E-mail: lmarsh@etechb.co.uk

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