IED CPD Online: Skills analysis in local economic development

16 Apr 2024 - Online via Zoom

Important - this webinar will run over 2 separate sessions, each running for 60 minutes on the16th and 18th April 2024.

This 2-part session will explore the role of skills analysis to help organisations unpick economic development needs in an area. The modules will introduce skills concepts and how this links through to productivity within the national, regional, and local economy.

The modules will explore different ways to measure skills demand and investigate how skills taxonomies can be accessed and used to better understand skills in a fast-evolving UK labour market. The sessions will help participants to unpick skills mismatches, identify growing areas of skills need and explore skills gaps and shortages. We will also be looking at how skills demand measures can be used to influence skills supply from further and higher education.

This course will be run by Will Cookson who is a Director at Lightcast, a global leader in labour market analytics.

Attendance is open to both IED members and non IED members.

The webinar sessions will be on:

• 16th April 2.00-3.00pm

• 18th April 2.00-3.00pm

There is an expectation that delegates will attend both webinars. If you are unable to attend both, you can request a recording of the missed webinar, but there will be no discount should you not be able to attend both.

Please note that the webinars will be conducted via Zoom or MS Teams and you will be able to ask live questions via the chat during the course of the sessions.

The inclusive price for this session (2 x 90 minute webinars) is £65 for IED members and £130 for non IED members. No VAT is chargeable. Pay by invoice is possible.

If you are undertaking this module as part of the Certificate in Economic Development, you don't need to book on via Eventbrite as all details will be sent to you separately by debbiedavidson@ied.co.uk.

To book on to this course, please visit our Eventbrite page here.

Please note, if you are not yet an IED member, why not consider joining to take advantage of the member rate for this and future CPD events? Get in touch with us at admin@ied.co.uk for further info.

We will send you a link to each webinar in the days running up to the first session.

Remember, the IED requires ALL associate and full members to log at least 40 hours of CPD over a two year period. Half of all CPD logged – 20 hours – needs to consist of formal CPD activity.

Please note that we are happy to provide this course or other CPD courses directly to your organisation - for now, these will all be delivered online. Please get in touch with us for more details.