BIRMINGHAM BUSINESS FOCUS.

Sarah Evans, headteacher of King Edward VI High School for girls in Edgbaston was the guest speaker at the recent meeting of Birmingham Business Focus.

Discussion at the meeting was entitled 'Education and Skills - are the institutions delivering what business needs and wants'? which prompted a lively debate.

Neil Maybury, the Chairman commented that a recent CBI survey had revealed that 41 per cent of firms in the country were not satisfied with school leavers business awareness and had to undertake some form of re-training. Sarah Evans said that in her view education should be a long term vision and assessing progress in a very narrow way could be disastrous.

Pictures/Tony Flanagan

Chris Swift, Friend LLP, Denise Friend, Friend LLP, Sarah Evans, King Edward VI High School for Girls and Neil Maybury, Neil Maybury & Co Solicitors

Bill Good, chairman, Ollerton, Marcia Lewis MJL Corporate Seriices, Isabelle Wright, Knight Frank and Neil Maybury, chairman, Birmingham Business Focus

Nick Whear, Russells Hall Hospital, Dorothy Warner, Arts in Business, Mary Martin, UCE and Salim Shaikh, Matthew Boulton College

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Title Annotation:	Features
Publication:	The Birmingham Post (England)
Date:	Nov 24, 2004
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