He described the taskforce as an "urgent stocktake" designed to help the government understand "what is working, what is not working, and we get cracking with the things that are succeeding".
Further efforts to help the workers were being co-ordinated through a taskforce led by Kent County Council, he added.
UK Energy Secretary Ed Davey later announced that a taskforce would be set up to help the sector cope with falling prices.
In the meantime, the NUS will be working as part of a taskforce – together with Universities UK, HEFCE, UKBA, London Metropolitan University and others – to help the students affected.
The council's "Taskforce" was handed a sizeable £50 million from central government to deal with the crisis, which has been spent on financial support, training and helping the men to "self-market" themselves, she says.
The taskforce helped to challenge the misguided view that global education goals have been largely met.
Martin Lewis, the personal finance expert who led a taskforce to help explain the new tuition loan scheme, attacked the decision to backdate the change to 2012, announced by the chancellor as part of his spending review.
In so doing, the taskforce has helped to refresh the case for a focus on education in the post-2015 agenda.
It is one of the ten taskforces set up by the UN Millennium Project to help guide the implementation of the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals.
The taskforce, formed to help combat discrimination in the sport, has its first meeting on Monday.
