Président du colloque / Colloquium Chairman
Mr. Mel Cappe, President and CEO, Institute for Research on Public Policy
Former Clerk of the Privy Council Office and Secretary to Cabinet
UK participants arrival at the Trudeau Airport in Montréal at 4:05PM
Most depart from Heathrow at approximately 1:30PM (Air Canada flight)
UK participants arrive at the Loews Hotel Vogue
1425 de La Montagne Street
(25 minutes from the Trudeau Airport)
7:15 pm Florence Room - Reception and Informal Dinner (25 participants)
Salon Florence Room
Breakfast at the Loews Hotel Vogue (25 participants)
9:00 a.m. - Mid-Morning Montreal Tour
Departure for the innovation, investment, and lifelong learning study tour of Montréal
9:30 a.m. - Cirque du Soleil
8400, 2e avenue, Montréal, Québec
12:00 p.m. - Lunch at CN Railway: language training
935 de La Gauchetière Street West, Montreal, Quebec
2:00 p.m - Afternoon
Montreal Tour Continued Afternoon study tour activities
Ubisoft Divertissements Inc., Ubisoft Canada Inc.
5505, boul. St-Laurent, suite 5000, Montréal, Québec
4:00 p.m - GlaxoSmithKline R&D Centre
525 Cartier Ouest, Laval, Québec
7:00 p.m. - Salon Florence Room
Reception - Cash Bar / Réception - Bar payant
(45 participants)
7:30 p.m. - Dinner / Dîner
Hosted by a local organisation with a focus on innovation and
investment between Canada and the UK
8:00 a.m.
Salon Florence Room
Breakfast Buffet – Petit-déjeuner buffet
(45 participants)
8:45 a.m.
Salon Paris I, II Room
Opening Remarks / Mot de bienvenue :
Philip Peacock, Chairman of the British Committee CUKC;
Professor Arthur Sweetman, School of Policy Studies, and by
Introduction of the chairman: Mel Cappe, President, Institute
for Research on Public Policy
9:00 a.m.
Session
1 / Séance 1: Our Knowledge, Skills, and Innovation
Needs
Canada: Arthur Sweetman, Queen’s School of Policy Studies
UK: Michael Osbaldeston, Cranfield School of Management
Presentation (PPT)
10:30 a.m. Break / Pause
11:00 a.m.
Session
2 / Séance 2 : Private and Public Sector Roles in
Lifelong Learning
Canada: TBD
12:30 p.m.
Foyer Paris I, II
Lunch Buffet / Déjeuner buffet (45 participants)
1:00 p.m.
Salon Lyon I, II Room
Breakout Discussion
With a view to providing input for the Rapporteur’s Report,
participants will use this session to discuss specific actions
the two countries can take to improve each nation’s knowledge,
innovative capacity and skills. Special emphasis should be
placed on lessons learned from each other in the course of
discussion, and how best practices may be adapted from one
country to the specific context of the other. Breakout discussion
will be conducted around the lunch tables at the facilitators’ discretion.
Results are to be submitted to the Rapporteur.
1:45 p.m.
Session 3 / Séance 3 : The Quality and
Value of Education and Training Outcomes
Canada: Ms. Marie-Lison Fougère, Assistant Deputy
Minister, Strategic Policy and Programs Division, Ministry
of Training, Colleges and Universities (Ontario)
UK: John Randall, Skills for Justice Presentation (DOC)
3:15 p.m.
Break / Pause
3:45 p.m.
Session 4 / Séance 4 : Priorities of Secondary Education
Canada: TBD
UK: Baroness Walmsley, LibDem spokesperson on skills
5:15 p.m.
Adjourn discussion for the day
5:45 p.m.
Gather in the Main Lobby of the Hotel Vogue for transportation to
the University Club of Montreal / Rencontre dans le hall
d’entrée du Loews Hôtel Vogue pour le
transport à la reception au Club universitaire de
Montréal
6:15 p.m.
Reception
/ Vin d’honneur (50 Participants & +)
University Club Montréal / Club universitaire de Montréal
Host / Hôte: Ann Jarrett, UK Consul-General / Consul
general du Royaume -Uni
7:00 p.m.
Dinner
/ Dîner:
Keynote speaker / conférencière d’honneur
: TBD
(50 participants & +)
University Club Montreal
2047 Mansfield Street, Montreal
Saturday November 22, 2008 – Actions to be Taken
Samedi le 22 novembre 2008
8:00 a.m.
Salon Florence Room
Breakfast Buffet / Petit-déjeuner buffet (45
participants)
9:00 a.m.
Salon Paris I, II
Room
Session 5 / Séance 5 : Access, Completion
and Innovation in Post-Secondary Institutions
Canada: Andrew Parkin, Millennium Scholarship Foundation
UK: TBD
10:30 a.m. Break / Pause
11:00 a.m.
Salon Lyon I, II
Room
Breakout Group Discussion
Much as the breakout discussion on Friday, with the same groups,
but more results-based. The aim at the end of the session is
to have coherent, synthesised responses from both discussions
to present to the Rapporteur.
11:45 a.m.
Discussion
Group Presentations
12:30 p.m.
Salon Florence I,
II Room
Lunch / Déjeuner (45 participants)
The Rapporteur will take time to organise the responses and his/her notes from the speaker sessions into a presentation, with the help of the discussion group Chairs.
1:00 p.m.
Salon Paris I, II
Room
Session 6 / Séance 6 : Rapporteur’s
Report
The Rapporteur will give a brief summary of the topics discussed
and the conclusions reached by the participants. She/he will
then draw broader conclusions about the state of knowledge,
skills, and innovation in the global economy and the directions
which the UK and Canada should take faced with the human capital
challenge of globalisation. The participants will have an opportunity
to comment.
Rapporteur: TBD
2:00 p.m.
Meeting
of the 2009 Colloquium Organisers Réserver local (15
personnes)
4:00 p.m.
Departure of UK Participants for Trudeau Airport
A 25 minute trip for the 7:40PM Air Canada flight, arriving
at Heathrow 7:30AM on Sunday, November 23