Update on Skills
Posted: 2 October 2007
The latest SSDA INvolve newsletter has useful information and updates on the skills agenda. The main stories are summarised below. (SSDA website closed as of 1 April 2008).
Skills for Business welcomes the Scottish Skills Strategy
The Skills for Business Network welcomes the Scottish Government's publication of Skills for Scotland: A Lifelong Skills Strategy.
Jacqui Hepburn, SSDA Manager for Scotland, said: “This strategy stresses the importance of ensuring that education and skills in Scotland are linked to the needs of both employers and individuals. The 25 employer-led Sector Skills Councils are already delivering on this agenda through Sector Skills Agreements which propose different solutions appropriate to the different sectors of the Scottish economy, whether in private businesses or in public services. The development and promotion of different qualifications according to the needs of those different sectors is also vital.”
Further details on the Skills for Business website (closed as of 1 April 2008).
Skills for Scotland: A Lifelong Skills Strategy is available on the Scottish Government website.
Skills upgrading needs: The challenge for employers and providers in Scotland and Northern Ireland
The SSDA has published its latest research report: Skills upgrading needs: the challenge for employers and providers in Scotland and Northern Ireland (Research Report number 26).
The report presents findings from a study, by ERI at Napier University in conjunction with PRI at Leeds Metropolitan University and BMRI at the University of Ulster. The report explores detailed skills upgrading needs among employers and the capacity of local vocational educational training to meet those needs.
The report is available on the Skills for Business website (closed as of 1 April 2008).
Our future. It's in our hands.
Our future. It's in our hands. is the Learning and Skills Council's (LSC) most ambitious communications campaign ever and aims to inspire people across England to take control of their future through learning and play an active role in achieving their full potential.
Over the next five years the LSC and its partners, the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills, the Sector Skills Development Agency and learning providers across the country, aim to transform the way people think, feel and act about learning and skills.
For further details visit the website inourhands.lsc.gov.uk