I wanted to take the opportunity in this post to share with you some of the thoughts and ideas put forward by the working groups on the recent High Tech Future Skills event on May 3 2017, and to give you a feel for the next steps before our Skills West day on July 6. At the very heart of the Skills West project is the drive to bring the business and education communities closer together. It is an ethos that ensures that when we engage, there is a close connection between us helping to address the real high-tech sector skills challenges business faces across the region. It is an even more powerful process when we can bring education and businesses together face to face, and help provide support to find solutions to often difficult and longstanding skills and recruitment issues. Skills West ‘Future Skills’ events are designed to do exactly that, and last month we ran an event at FutureSpace bringing together high-tech businesses, education providers and community organisations...