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 * 11:30 – 12:45 || = STREAM 1c: MEETING THE NEEDS OF THE WORKPLACE – HOW DOES BUSINESS GRADE HIGHER EDUCATION AND POLYTECHNICS IN THIS AREA? = ||
 * || Corporations are “buyers” of our students: are we giving them what they need? Do we listen to what employers want? Can our schools actually deliver what business is asking of them?

Opening remarks (10 minutes): **Charles Leadbeater** (moderator) || · **//Abeer Shubassi//**//, Regional Director, Education for Employment Foundation (EFE)// · **//Zenna Atkins//**//, Non-Executive Director, Royal Navy Board, and Chairman of Places for People, and CEO, GEMS, UK, Europe and Africa// · **//Huda Al-Ghoson//**//, General Manager of Training & Development, Aramco, Saudi Arabia// · **//John Scott//**//, CEO, Bahrain Polytechnic// ||
 * || //Proposed speaker panel:// ||
 * || · **//Charles Leadbeater//**//, author of Learning from the Extremes, visiting fellow Oxford University Business School, fellow National Endowment Science Technology and the Arts (moderator)//

CHARLES LEADBEATER'S COMMENTS

ABEER SHUBASSI'S COMMENTS

ZENNA ATKINS' COMMENTS

HUDA AL-GHOSON'S COMMENTS

JOHN SCOTT'S COMMENTS