The 10th Holyrood Summer School will run from the 18-22nd August at the University of Stirling Management Centre and will consider the key issues in Scotland including;

• Scotland in the Global Economy
• Scotland's Governance and Accountability
• Modernising Public Services
• Leadership & Change
• Public Finance and Performance
• Health
• Criminal Justice
• Regeneration
• Education and Skills
• Transport
• Local Government

The School provides a unique and essential experience for aspiring senior managers and executives to gain a greator understanding of what is happening in Scotland from the people making it happen. the confirmed contributors to the 2008 School are:

• Robert Black - Auditor General for Scotland, Audit Scotland
• Stephen Boyle - Senior Economic Adviser, Royal Bank of Scotland
• Tom Divers OBE - Chief Executive, Greator Glasgow & Clyde NHS
• Mary Dickson - Managing Director, First ScotRail
• Sir John Elvidge CBE - Permanent Secretary, Scottish Government
• David Fenton - Senior Economic Adviser, Royal Bank of Scotland
• Baroness Ford of Cunningham - Managing Director, Royal Bank of Canada Infrastructure & Development Team & Chair of Irvine Bay URC
• Brian Lister - Chief Executive, Scottish Further Education Unit
• Colin McKerracher - Chief Constable, Grampian Police
• Henry McLeish - Chair, Scottish Prisons Commission
• David Martin - Chief Executive, Renfrewshire Council
• Bill Reeve - Director of Rail Delivery, Transport Scotland
• Alf Young - Assistant Editor, The Herald

The Holyrood Summer School offers senior managers a unique opportunity to:

• Enhance knowledge and skill in a strategic setting
• Meet and share learning with peers  from Scotland's key organisations and institutions
• Attend sessions with orginisational leaders, academics and Government Ministers
• Informally debate the emerging strategic agenda with opinion formers and senior politicians