Future of Skills and Apprenticeships
Author WIG Date 31 Mar 2022
A recording of the WIG Webinar: Future of Skills and Apprenticeships with Jennifer Coupland, Chief Executive, Institute for Apprenticeships & Technical Education and Arvinda Gohil OBE, Chief Executive, Central YMCA.
One of the government’s core priorities is to build a high skill, high wage economy. Central to delivery of this ambition is development new skills which are matched with the demand from the private sector. In the last year there has been a huge focus on apprenticeships and development of T levels to support this ambition. This session will bring together voices from across the sector to discuss the development and deployment of the apprenticeship and technical education.
You will:
- Discover how the skills agenda will support the UK economy more broadly, especially in areas where we an play a global role
- Learn how the Institute for Apprenticeships & Technical Education is focusing its time and how it wants to work with wider Whitehall, ALBs, agencies and private sector to ensure success around policy delivery
- Get the perspective from the private sector on how the skills agenda is being support by the government, and where future support may be needed
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Jennifer Coupland took up post as Chief Executive of the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education in November 2019. Her previous role was Director of Professional and Technical Education in DfE for three years, where she was responsible for T Level development and delivery, the L3 and below qualifications review and the Higher Technical Reforms. Prior to that, Jennifer was Acting Chief Executive of the Standards and Testing Agency, where she oversaw the Agency’s work on primary school assessment policy and operational delivery. Before that, she spent three years as the Deputy Director of the joint DfE/BIS Apprenticeships Unit.
Arvinda is Chief Executive of Central YMCA, the first ever YMCA set up in 1844. Central YMCA provides programmes and support across England in education, training, health, and wellbeing, providing opportunities for many people who do not always get the access and support for them to thrive. She was previously Chief Executive of Community Links, a social action and advocacy charity based in East London. She has worked in the not-for-profit and charitable sector all of her working life, including as Chief Executive of Emmaus UK. Prior to this, she ran her own consultancy for five years, specialising in governance, leadership, and equalities.
Previous roles include Membership Services Director at the National Housing Federation; Assistant Director for Regulation at the Housing Corporation; and Chief Executive of two Black-led housing associations - Unity where she was a founder, and Inquilab. Her career started in housing and her first role was running a women’s refuge specifically to support Black and Asian women. Arvinda has also worked in South Africa where she assisted in developing a social housing model.
As an experienced non-executive, Arvinda is currently Chair of The Peel, a charity that has been building a connected community in Clerkenwell since 1898. She is also a non-executive director of the Conduit, where she chairs the Impact Committee and a Group Board member at Sanctuary Housing.