The Goodison Group in Scotland (GGiS) was formed in 2005 by founder member and Chair Sir Andrew Cubie CBE and Brian Stevens. The establishment of GGiS was inspired by the work of the Goodison Group, set up in England by Sir Nicholas Goodison and Brian Stevens as a programme of FEdS Consultancy Ltd.

GGiS has continued to operate long after the original Goodison Group ceased to operate in 2006. In August 2011 GGiS moved into a new phase, constituted as a company limited by guarantee with pending charitable status, registered as GGiS (Network) Ltd.

Our vision:

Lifelong learning within a community that treasures the capacity to learn should be the normal expectation of every individual.

Our aim:

To influence debate and practice in business, government and education on the changing nature of learning in the 21st century.

Our purpose:

To bring together experienced people from the worlds of business, government and education to focus on particular themes to do with learning, skills and productivity.

Our objective:

To act as a premier learning network for its members to come together to explore the changing nature of learning in a spirit of open inquiry and to produce high quality research, events and briefings on different aspects of learning suitable in 21st century Scotland.

Our work is guided by five long term aspirations for learning:

• Every individual citizen should have the opportunity to learn at every age, and should expect to do so.
• The treasure of learning throughout life should be part and parcel of every community in the country.
• The advancement of every individual citizen, through both formal and informal learning, should be the test of all policies and practices.
• There should be constructive debate about lifelong learning between business, government and education and a means of sustaining it.
• The countries of the United Kingdom should make sure that they learn policies and practices from each other.

Who are we?

GGiS has an active, growing network of over 130 individuals and organisations from a range of backgrounds, including business, public service, education and the third sector.

GGiS Board of Directors

• Sir Andrew Cubie (Chair)
• Mark Batho
• Dugdale Bradley
• Prof Graham Donaldson
• Brian Stevens (Company Secretary)

GGiS associate consultants

• Robert Rae
• Angela Gardner

GGiS Forum

A Forum of around 35 invited individuals acts as the GGiS strategy group, tasked with ensuring the intellectual rigor and quality of GGiS deliberations and outputs. GGiS Forum members 2012