Agenda item

Report of the Director of Community and Children’s Services.

Members received a report of the Director of Community and Children’s services updating them on recent activity undertaken in support of the Education Strategy. In response to a comment from a member, the Director confirmed that his department would be working to build on the recent roundtable event on the National Apprenticeships Service hosted by the Lord Mayor at Mansion House.

At the invitation of the Chairman, the Director of the Museum of London provided an update on the work of the Learning and Engagement Forum (LEF). She noted that the LEF was on course to provide an interim report to the Education Board later in the year, and commented that whilst visitor numbers at LEF institutions were healthy, the low exchange rate meant that there were fewer foreign school visits. She confirmed that headline visitor figures could be circulated to the Board from time to time at future meetings.

In response to a comment from a member, the Chairman stated that the learning and engagement partners were looking at ways of engaging with the London Film School.  However it was unlikely to fall within the remit of the Education Strategy and noted that most of its students were self-financing postgraduates.

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