http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk CBI Higher Education RSS Feed (http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk) en-corp CBI 22 March 2010 GMT 15 http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/latest_news/00119/ 06 October 2008 The CBI, UUK and HEFCE have been working in partnership to examine how businesses and universities can work together more effectively to develop higher level skills in the workforce. The results are set out in a new report Stepping higher: workforce development through employer-higher educ... Latest news http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/latest_news/00161/ 18 March 2009 The CBI higher education taskforce is comprised of 18 leaders from leading businesses and universities. Here, two members of the taskforce, John Griffith-Jonesfrom KMPG and Ian Tyler of Balfour Beatty articulate why higher education is an important issue. "Business needs to send a clear messag... Latest news http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/latest_news/00162/ 12 January 2009 Universities UK has launched a leaflet Standing together: Universities helping business through the downturn It includes practical support to help small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) spot problems early, focusing on SME priorities - cash flow, access to finance, staff training, consu... Latest news http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/latest_news/00182/ 01 June 2009 David Lammy, minister of state for higher education and intellectual property had the following to say in relation to the CBI's Future fit report which looks at preparing graduates for the world of work. "We all know that graduates need to be equipped with the right skills to succeed in ... Latest news http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/latest_news/00194/ 09 June 2009 The CBI's Future fit report makes a number of recommendationson how businesses and universities can prepare graduates for the world of work. "Universities owe it to their students and themselves to prepare students for employment ... While the onus lies with the student to research these... Latest news http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/latest_news/00165/ 26 March 2009 The CBI in partnership with universities UK and support from DIUS, has today launched a report focussing on graduate employability. Future fit: preparing graduates for the world of work highlights examples of good practice in the development of employability skills by universities and employer... Latest news http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/latest_news/00171/ 27 March 2009 CBI's Future fit report, launched on 26 March, has received significant coverage in the national and regional press. Mentions have been secured on BBC Radio 4, BBC Online and also in selected regional press. Richard Wainer , head of education and skills at CBI was interviewed on Ra... Latest news http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/latest_news/00172/ 06 April 2009 Employers remain concerned about their ability to find the future talent their business will need, new CBI figures show today (Monday). Over half (57%) of employers lack confidence in there being enough highly skills staff, including graduates, in the future. The latest CBI/Nord Anglia educati... Latest news http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/latest_news/00219/ 26 June 2009 On 24th June, MPs and peers came together with vice-chancellors of universities, heads of careers services, and employer representatives to talk about graduate employment in the context of the recession, and to draw attention to the CBI/UUK Future Fit report . Professor John Coyne, vice-cha... Latest news http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/latest_news/00247/ 20 October 2009 Let me start my offering my congratulations on your valuable new report. It is a very useful statement of the current barriers limiting universities and business partnership as well as the potential for working more closely together in the future. The report is a useful contribution at a useful mo... Latest news http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/latest_news/00248/ 20 October 2009 For UK plc, HE and FE are capacity costs they are the costs of being in business at all. The reality is that they are rising. Because we compete on people and skills, even in technology-intensive sectors like manufacturing. And the skills we need both at the generic and specialist ends of the spec... Latest news http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/latest_news/00230/ 21 September 2009 CBItaskforce calls for far-reaching changes to maintain quality With the UKs higher education (HE) system facing tough choices posed by recession and competition from abroad, business must do even more than it does to work with universities and the government to help maintain the UKs international... Latest news http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/latest_news/00253/ 09 November 2009 The CBI's higher education taskforce report identifies how business can work with universities to boost the UKs competitiveness. By Lizzi Holman With the UK's higher education system facing tough choices posed by the recession and competition from abroad, the CBI higher education taskforce re... Latest news http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/latest_news/00254/ 09 November 2009 Amec is investing in several partnerships with UK universities in an effort to produce more nuclear engineers. It has relationships with Birmingham, Manchester, Sheffield and Imperial, providing staff as lecturers and in some cases visiting professors to a range of nuclear-related courses. Howe... Latest news http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/latest_news/00255/ 10 November 2009 Article by Susan Anderson, CBI director of education skills policy You could be forgiven if you missed the figures released last week by Universities UK which showed the economic impact of universities. Some people may be surprised to learn that our universities generate 59bn for the economy... Latest news http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/latest_news/00259/ 13 January 2010 The CBIresponded to the consultation by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) on the Research Excellence Framework (REF). The REF will replace the system of Research Assessment Exercises (RAEs) as the main basis for allocating research funds to universities in most of the UK... Latest news http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/latest_news/00261/ 16 January 2010 QinetiQ's Dr Alison Hodge chairs the CBIs Inter-Company Academic Relations Group (ICARG). In this video she talks about its work. London, January 2010. Watch the video Latest news http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/latest_news/00263/ 08 March 2010 Richard Lambertrecently spoke to an audience gathered at Deloitte's offices in London on Britain's education system. The speech emphasised the need to tackle our long tail of educational underachievement, set out the priorities for government in addressing youth unemployment, and highlighted the c... Latest news http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/latest_news/00265/ 26 February 2010 In the second of two videos, Dr Alison Hodge recorded a further podcast on business-university links and how to improve them. Watch the video Latest news http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/events/00258/ 12 January 2010 The future of higher education 11-12 March 2010 London CBI is pleased to be a marketing partner of this event produced by The Guardian. Sam Laidlaw, CEO of Centrica and chair of the CBI's higher education taskforce is speaking at the event and will detail both the work of the taskforce to dat... Events http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/events/00262/ 25 February 2010 Skills: How to get returns on your investment 23rd March 2010 Manchester The CBI is supporting sector skills council Semta for science engineering and manufacturing technologies with a free conference to share best practice on getting returns from skills. Semta will also launch its new simpl... Events http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/events/00226/ 20 October 2009 Following the launch of the CBI higher education taskforce's final report, the higher education summit will provide an excellent opportunity to explore the relationship between business and higher education. Date: Tuesday 20 October 8.45 16.00 Venue: BMA House, Tavistock Square, Lon... Events http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/reports/00228/ 21 September 2009 Universities are a vital public good, making a crucial contribution to the intellectual, cultural, social and economic well-being of the UK. They play an essential role in ensuring that the country has the skills and knowledge necessary for its long-term success. This report sets out what busi... Reports http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/reports/00229/ 21 September 2009 The Task Force has made 24 recommendations to government, universities and students. It is also encouraging businesses to sign up to a range of commitments, designed to improve HE outcomes. Its top priorities are: To help raise the numbers and quality of graduates in science, technology, eng... Reports http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/reports/00232/ 21 September 2009 A competitive business sector needs excellent universities to produce the graduates, postgraduates, research and innovation that are required to drive economic growth and prosperity. The UK has one of the most successful HE sectors in the world whether measured by the quality of its graduates and... Reports http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/reports/00233/ 21 September 2009 The HE sector faces big challenges. Public funding will come under severe pressure in the next few years as the government struggles to manage an unsustainable fiscal deficit. At the same time, UK universities are facing growing competition from the emerging economies, as well as from North Americ... Reports http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/reports/00234/ 21 September 2009 Business already does a lot to support students and fund research, but the taskforce believes that employers need to engage and invest more effectively. Each taskforce member has undertaken to do more, and this report also sets out a range of commitments which all businesses should consider: Em... Reports http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/reports/00235/ 21 September 2009 The current funding models need to be reappraised. Government must recognise that a vibrant university sector is critically important to the well-being of the UK, and that taxpayer support here is already lower than in many other major economies. Heavy cuts in the public funding of teaching and re... Reports http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/reports/00236/ 21 September 2009 Just as companies are having to focus on cutting waste to survive the recession, so universities need to take bold action. The constraints on public funding will provide a spur to develop new ways of generating income, and of addressing difficult issues on pay and pensions. There are strong argume... Reports http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/reports/00237/ 21 September 2009 A survey undertaken for the Task Force showed that many recent graduates felt they had not received high-quality careers advice. Others thought more could have been done to help them develop the employability skills necessary to secure the jobs they wanted. Action here would be in the interests of... Reports http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/reports/00167/ 26 March 2009 In the current economic climate, it is essential that graduates are prepared to enter the workplace, possessing key employability skills which will enable them to compete in today's job market. Universities and employers both have an important role to play in providing work placements, internships... Reports http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/reports/00164/ 17 April 2008 The CBI/Edexcel Education Skills Survey 2008 of 735 firms, employing 1.7 million people between them, identifies skills gaps in the workplace, reveals the skills employers value the most and spotlights how employers are managing to source highly skilled people with the right qualifications. I... Reports http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/reports/00152/ 12 January 2009 The CBI, in partnership with the Learning and Skills Improvement Service, examines in a new report how businesses and colleges can work together more effectively to boost employees' skills. The findings of this research are explored in the report Reaching Further - Workforce development through em... Reports http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/reports/00114/ 30 October 2008 In today's more competitive world, our economy needs more people in the workplace with higher level skills. Many employers and universities are already working together to achieve this. More and more universities and higher education colleges see engaging with employers as an everyday activity. Bu... Reports http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/reports/00246/ 16 October 2009 The report, the culmination of a year's work by the CBI higher education taskforce - comprising both business and universities - says that the rapid rise in student numbers, coupled with a severe strain on public finances, makes current public funding levels unsustainable. The UK's HE sector is ... Reports http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/case_studies/00256/ 11 November 2009 In planning their future workforce, Network Rail identified a need for more Project Managers to carry out the work they were intending to undertake over the next five years. Realising that they would not be able to recruit the numbers they required externally, the company sought another solution. ... Case studies http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/case_studies/00257/ 11 November 2009 A few years ago, Astrazeneca became alarmed at the fall in the number of students applying to read key science subjects at university. As a leading pharmaceutical company, whose success relies on researching and developing new medicines, the downward trend in science graduates threatened their fut... Case studies http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/case_studies/00220/ 13 July 2009 Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) is Scotland's fifth largest university, with about 16,000 students on its modern campus in Oman, studying in seven academic schools over the areas of business, health, science and technology. Integrating employment and higher education In 2007, the Scottis... Case studies http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/case_studies/00221/ 15 July 2009 KPMG is a leading international provider of professional services including audit, tax, financial and risk advisory. In the UK, over 10,000 partners and staff work in 22 offices, stretching from Plymouth in the south-west of England to Aberdeen in north-east Scotland, and from Cardiff to Ipswich. ... Case studies http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/case_studies/00222/ 20 July 2009 The world of work While some schools and programmes had for a long time delivered a good mix of subject skills, graduate skills and work-related learning, the arrival in 2000 of Professor Michael Brown as vice-chancellor and chief executive provided an opportunity to connect the universitys whol... Case studies http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/case_studies/00202/ 15 June 2009 The CBI's Future fit report provides numerous case studies including one from the University of Exeter. Key pioints from the case study are: an evolving and innovative marketing strategy to get employability messages across to students an annually produced Employability Matters ha... Case studies http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/case_studies/00203/ 08 June 2009 The CBI's Future fit report provides numerous case studies including that of Shell. Shell has good partnerships with a range of universities, working with careers advisers and academics. This is partly about promoting our internships as part of our marketing for graduate recruitment. But w... Case studies http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/case_studies/00204/ 10 June 2009 The CBI's Future fit report contains a number of case studies that look at how businesses and universities are preparinggraduates for the world of work. Key points of theGoldsmithscase study are: The Goldsmiths "3D Graduate" based on personal development planning Incorporating e... Case studies http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/case_studies/00206/ 04 June 2009 The CBI's Future fit report contains a number of case studies that look at how businesses and universities are preparinggraduates for the world of work. Key points of theUniversity of Hertfordshirecase study are: extensive employer consultation and engagement to determine what empl... Case studies http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/case_studies/00207/ 04 June 2009 The CBI's Future fit report contains a number of case studies that look at how businesses and universities are preparinggraduates for the world of work. Key points of theYellowfincase study are: Chief executive working with local universities to share experience and encourage entre... Case studies http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/case_studies/00210/ 01 June 2009 The CBI's Future fit report contains a number of case studies that look at how businesses and universities are preparinggraduates for the world of work. Key points of the Centrica case study are: Building links to universities so business leaders share knowledge and experience P... Case studies http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/case_studies/00213/ 03 June 2009 The CBI's Future fit report provides numerous case studies including one from the University of Surrey. The university has a clear approach to employability which is set out in its vision statement. Students are encouraged to acquire life and work skills alongside their academic achievements. ... Case studies http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/case_studies/00218/ 26 June 2009 Sainsburys is one of the big four supermarkets, with 785 stores across the UK, also offering a wide range of non-grocery items, online ordering, and financial services via Sainsburys Bank. Over sixteen million customers shop at Sainsburys every week and about 150,000 people work for the company... Case studies http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/case_studies/00224/ 28 July 2009 If in the last 20 or so years you have like millions of UK shoppers found yourself in a Marks Spencers store, you may have encountered a student taking a year out from their degree course to work alongside the companys 68,000 UK employees. MS provides year-long placements for undergraduates to ... Case studies http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/case_studies/00225/ 04 August 2009 Cardiff Universitys campus close to the centre of the capital of Wales is the place of study of 20,593 undergraduates and 6,213 postgraduates. As the universitys own website points out, this makes it the size of many small towns, making it a potentially daunting task to influence the behaviour of ... Case studies http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/case_studies/00242/ 12 October 2009 Microsoft Research Cambridge was set up in July 1997 to provide a world-class hub for the firm's development activity. Today over 100 researchers, mostly from Europe, are engaged in computer research at the lab. The lab's work in computer science plays a pivotal role in applying computer technol... Case studies http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/case_studies/00243/ 12 October 2009 InfoLab21 is Lancaster University's world-class research, development and business centre in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). Opened in February 2005, the InfoLab21 project is based on the principle of collaboration. The facility brings together the university's Computing and Comm... Case studies http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/case_studies/00244/ 15 October 2009 McDonald's regularly support members of staff to study for higher education qualifications knowing that the investment will bring benefits to the individual and the company as a whole. Members of staff develop their skills and confidence, and will be able to apply their new competencies back at w... Case studies http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/case_studies/00245/ 15 October 2009 Cardiff University is focused on its goal of becoming a world-leading institution. Therefore alongside its research activities, the university realised that a key indicator of success was the employment destinations of its graduates. Building on its strong links with employers, the university ... Case studies http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/task-force/task-force-members/00154/ 13 March 2009 James has been with Shell since 1983 and has worked in all the group's major businesses. Until the end of 2003 he was on the global board of Shell chemicals as head of technology, strategy and sustainable development. He has been head of resourcing, which principally involved ensuring there is ... Taskforce members http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/task-force/task-force-members/00155/ 13 March 2009 John studied at Eton and Cambridge. A former major in the territorial army, he spent a significant part of his career at KPMG developing its corporate finance division. John has strong views on the graduate market place and their importance to his business. "The best way to evolve is to attrac... Taskforce members http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/task-force/task-force-members/00116/ 12 January 2009 Sam Laidlaw joined Centrica plc as Chief Executive in July 2006. He is Chairman of the Executive Committee and the Disclosure Committee. He was previously Executive Vice President of the Chevron Corporation, Chief Executive Officer at Enterprise Oil and President and Chief Operating Officer at Ame... Taskforce members http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/task-force/task-force-members/00128/ 14 January 2009 Madeleine Atkins studied law and history as an undergraduate at Cambridge University before qualifying as a secondary teacher. Following various post-doctoral research positions, she became a lecturer in education management at Newcastle University. Having held the positions of Head of Depa... Taskforce members http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/task-force/task-force-members/00130/ 14 January 2009 Professor Breakwell took her PhD from the University of Bristol and DSc from the University of Oxford. In 2003, in recognition of the significance of her contribution to the social sciences, she was awarded an honorary doctorate of laws from the University of Bristol and in 2004 became an Honorary... Taskforce members http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/task-force/task-force-members/00131/ 14 January 2009 Chris Brinsmead has been the President of AstraZeneca UK since 2002. Prior to this he held a variety of marketing and senior management roles with AstraZeneca. He is also President of the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry. He holds a BSc in Civil Engineering and a Masters in Busin... Taskforce members http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/task-force/task-force-members/00132/ 14 January 2009 Melfort Campbell is Chairman and Chief Executive of Imes Group, which he established in 1985. During the last 20 years he has evolved the Company from its origins as Water Weights a novel technology for testing crane-lifting integrity to one that has diversified and expanded into many other mark... Taskforce members http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/task-force/task-force-members/00133/ 14 January 2009 Johnny Cameron was appointed to the Board of Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc in March 2006, Johnny Cameron joined RBS from Dresdner Kleinwort Benson in 1998. In 2000, he was appointed Deputy Chief Executive of Corporate Banking Financial Markets (CBFM) with responsibility for the integration... Taskforce members http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/task-force/task-force-members/00134/ 14 January 2009 Ian was appointed Group Chief Executive of Kingfisher plc in January 2008. Prior to this he was Chief Executive of BQ from June 2005. His previous roles at Kingfisher include Chief Executive of International and Development, Chief Executive of e-Kingfisher and Group Director of Strategy an... Taskforce members http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/task-force/task-force-members/00136/ 14 January 2009 Previously Managing Director of Network Rail, Iain Coucher became Deputy Chief Executive of Network Rail when it acquired Railtrack PLC in October 2002. Iain has responsibility for all day-to-day operations. Previously, Iain was Chief Executive of TubeLines, one of the preferred bidders for the... Taskforce members http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/task-force/task-force-members/00137/ 14 January 2009 Steve was appointed President and CEO of McDonalds UK in April 2006 and President, Northern Division, McDonalds Europe in January 2007 with responsibility for the UK, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Norway, Iceland and the Republic of Ireland. Steves current roles at McDonalds build on a 15 year career ... Taskforce members http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/task-force/task-force-members/00138/ 14 January 2009 Gordon has been Managing Director of Microsoft UK since 31 July, 2006. In 2001, Gordon Frazer took the Outstanding Contributor Award at Microsoft's global sales convention. He also won the Leadership Award. Gordon Frazer was General Manager of Microsoft, South Africa from 2002 to mid 2006. Taskforce members http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/task-force/task-force-members/00139/ 14 January 2009 Richard Lambert studied history at Balliol College and joined the Financial Times in 1966. He edited the Lex column in the 1970s, becoming financial editor in 1979. In 1982 he moved to New York as the Bureau Chief, returning to the UK a year later as deputy editor. He became editor of the Financia... Taskforce members http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/task-force/task-force-members/00142/ 14 January 2009 Prior to assuming his current role, Graham Love was group CFO, working closely with the chairman to lead QinetiQ through its successful IPO on the London stock exchange in early 2006. In 2003, he was CEO of QinetiQ north America. In 2001,Graham joined the defence evaluation and research agency... Taskforce members http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/task-force/task-force-members/00143/ 14 January 2009 Jamie has been starting up, investing in and managing entrepreneurial businesses for the past 10 years. Most recently, as UK managing director at innocent, he grew innocents UK business from 17m to 100m in 3 years, driving innovation first in smoothies, then in food, and creating one of the country... Taskforce members http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/task-force/task-force-members/00144/ 14 January 2009 Paul Skinner is Chairman of Rio Tinto plc and Rio Tinto Limited which together form Rio Tinto, the global mining and minerals company, dual-listed in the UK and Australia. He joined the boards of Rio Tinto as a non-executive director in 2001 and became Chairman in November 2003. Paul was last re-e... Taskforce members http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/task-force/task-force-members/00146/ 14 January 2009 Susan Taylor Martin has been appointed Managing Director and Senior Company Officer (SCO) for UK and Ireland (UKI). Susan has a wealth of knowledge about the Company, having been closely involved in the setting of Reuters strategy in recent years. Since joining Reuters in 1993 Susan has held a... Taskforce members http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/task-force/task-force-members/00147/ 14 January 2009 Rick Trainor has been Principal and Professor of Social History at Kings College London since 2004. For the previous four years he was Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Social History at the University of Greenwich. An American by birth and undergraduate education, he took his doctorate at ... Taskforce members http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/task-force/task-force-members/00149/ 14 January 2009 Ian is a chartered accountant. A Director since 1999, he became Chief Executive on 1 January 2005, having been Chief Operating Officer since 2002 and prior to that, Finance Director. He joined Balfour Beatty in 1996 from the Hanson Group where he was finance director of ARC Ltd, one of its prin... Taskforce members http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/task-force/task-force-members/00151/ 14 January 2009 In 1980 Trevor Mann started his career as a management trainee at BBH Coil Transformer Ltd, a subsidiary of Farnell Electronics. Trevor worked within the light manufacturing electronic service industry before joining Nissan Motor Manufacturing (UK) Limited in 1985. In 1999 he was appointed ... Taskforce members http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/press_release/00157/ 27 February 2009 Commenting on the prime minister's announcements of new government targets for science and maths in secondary schools, John Cridland, the CBIs deputy director-general, said: "These are positive moves by the government. We need more young people studying science and maths - these skills are vital... Press releases http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/press_release/00159/ 09 March 2009 The CBI today backed Lord Draysons call for more scientists and engineers to act as ambassadors to promote science and engineering in schools, but called for extra measures by government to raise science skills. Richard Wainer, the CBI's head of education and skills policy said: "Science and e... Press releases http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/press_release/00109/ 17 September 2008 The future of higher education was under the spotlight at the first meeting of a new taskforce of business and university leaders formed by the CBI. The CBI's higher education taskforce - under the leadership of Sam Laidlaw, chief executive of Centrica - will explore what business wants... Press releases http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/press_release/00111/ 30 October 2008 Collaboration between business and universities could help the UK to maintain its competitive edge, according to a CBI-Universities UK report. Stepping higher - workforce development through partnership looks at how business and universities can work together to improve the skills of the wor... Press releases http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/press_release/00223/ 20 July 2009 The CBI commented today on the government's announcement that it would fund student loans for 10,000 additional university places in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) subjects in the coming academic year. Universities will have to find the funding for teaching the degrees. ... Press releases http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/press_release/00169/ 26 March 2009 The CBI director-general, Richard Lambert, will say today (Thursday) that it is even more important during the recession that students gain vital employability skills and experience of the workplace while at university, so they are better equipped to compete in the increasingly tough jobs market a... Press releases http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/press_release/00252/ 09 November 2009 The CBI has today (Monday) commented on the appointment of Lord Browne as chair of the Government's independent review of higher education funding and student finance. Susan Anderson, CBI director of education skills policy, said: "We welcome Lord Brownes appointment to this critical review; h... Press releases http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/press_release/00231/ 21 September 2009 With the UK's higher education (HE) system facing tough choices posed by recession and competition from abroad, business must do even more than it does to work with universities and the government to help maintain the UK's international competitiveness, a major new report says today (Monday). Th... Press releases http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/press_release/00249/ 20 October 2009 The CBI today (Tuesday) responded to Lord Mandelsons speech at its Higher Education Summit at BMA House. Richard Lambert, CBI Director-General, said: "Lord Mandelsons support for the work of the CBIs Higher Education Task Force in bringing universities and business together is welcome. Business ha... Press releases http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/media/audio/00238/ 21 September 2009 In this podcast , Richard Wainer and Lizzi Holman talk to Graham Smith about the background to the report and its main findings. Audio http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/media/audio/00239/ 10 June 2009 Andy Russell, CBI higher education taskforce adviser talks tochief executive of Centrica, Sam Laidlaw, with Glynis Breakwell, vice chancellor of the university of Bath and Melfort Campbell, CEO of Imes Group about why they are involved in the taskforce and the challenges facing thehigher educat... Audio http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/media/higher-education-tv/00240/ 02 June 2009 Employers are looking to get more out of staff training during the recession to help their business survive, new CBI figures show. The latest CBI/Nord Anglia education and skills survey, Emerging stronger: the value of education and skills in turbulent times , shows that in response to the... Video http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/media/higher-education-tv/00241/ 01 September 2009 Richard Lambert,recently talked to BBC Working Lunch presenter Declan Curry about how to turn academic researchinto innovative commercial enterprise. Universities have become increasingly responsive to business needs since the 2003 Lambert review of business-university collaboration, and ... Video http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/media/higher-education-tv/00250/ 27 October 2009 Lord Mandelson spoke to an audience of CBI members including FTSE100 companies and universities in his speech at the HE summit at BMA House. In response to the speech Richard Lambert, CBI director-general, said: "Lord Mandelson's support for the work of the CBI's higher education taskforce in ... Video http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/media/higher-education-tv/00251/ 27 October 2009 Richard Lambert addressed an audience of CBI members in his speech at the HE summit at BMA House and talked about the future role of the taskforce and working with the NUS. Richard discussed the next steps for the CBI, which includes presenting the recent CBI report Stronger together to CBI regi... Video http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/media/higher-education-tv/00260/ 16 January 2010 The CBIs Inter-Company Academic Relations Group (ICARG) held its January meeting in Cambridge as the guests of Microsoft Research. Dr Alison Hodge, university partnerships director of QinetiQ, who chairs the group, describes its work. Video http://highereducation.cbi.org.uk/media/higher-education-tv/00264/ 26 February 2010 On a later visit to our offices in London Dr Alison Hodge,director of university partnerships, QuinetiQ, recorded another podcast on business-university links and how to improve them in the current economic climate. Video