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Scotland's Migration Challenges:  Fit for a creative Age?

Scotland's Migration Challenges: Fit for a creative Age?

Friday, November 21, 2008 from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM (GMT)

Edinburgh, United Kingdom


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10.00 Coffee & Registration
   
10.25 Migration & Education
 

Chair: Stuart Borrowman

   
10.30 EU Green Paper on Migration & Education – Georgi Dimitrov, European Commission - Directorate General for Education and Culture
   
11.00 Education Perspective – Joanna McPake, Director of the Scottish Centre for Information on Language Teaching and Research
   
11.20 Q&A Session
   
11.40 Panel Discussion – Led by Dr. Daniela Sime, Educational and Professional Studies, University of Strathclyde with input from Keith Brown MSP; Lorraine Cook COSLA’s Migration Partnership; and Ian Kernohan, Head of Fresh talent Initiative Scottish Government
   
 

Summary of discussions will be assembled as a contribution to the European Commission consultation on the Green paper

   
12.15 Lunch
   
13.10 Migration & Skills
 

Chair: Charlie Woods, European Policies Research Centre

   
13.15 Year of the Homecoming 2009 - Malcolm Pentland, Scottish Government
  Q&A Session
   
13.35

Ireland and Scotland's diaspora strategy- Professor Mark Boyle, National University Ireland

  Q&A Session
   
14.10 Panel discussion on the 'European immigration pact' and impact on attracting the creative class - led by Hugo Brady, Centre for European Reform; with input from Dr Paul Millar, Czech Consul in Scotland; Heather Farquhar of Aberdeen City Council; and Neil Mitchison, European Commission Office in Scotland
   
   
14.55

Close

  Followed by a wine reception.
   



When

Friday, November 21, 2008 from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM (GMT)

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Surgeons' Hall
Nicolson Street
EH8 9DW Edinburgh
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