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Employers

Skills Development Scotland can help you to get the best out of your people. Our employer services range from funding for employee training and training plan development to PACE redundancy support.

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Learning Providers

Work with Skills Development Scotland to reach new learners. Register your courses on the most comprehensive learning opportunities database in Scotland or help us to deliver national training programmes for the benefit of individuals across Scotland.

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Individuals

Whatever you want to do, do it well. Skills Development Scotland offers careers advice, on-the-job training and funding for learning at every stage of your career.

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Opportunities for All

Opportunities for All offers a place in learning or training to every 16 to 19 year-old who is not currently in employment, education or training.

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Scottish Apprenticeship Week 2012

Scottish Apprenticeship Week runs from May 21-25. It celebrates the value Modern Apprenticeships bring to employers, to the economy and to the lives of those who are building a successful career from the skills they are learning.

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re:think

The re:think website is the place to go to find out more about working in the financial services sector in Scotland. The site contains case studies and videos from people who currently work in the sector.

Visit the site to find out what a career in finance could mean for you.
My World of Work

Skills Development Scotland has launched its new online web service My World of Work. The service aims to help people plan, build and direct their career throughout their lives.

Find out more about our new web service.

Modern Apprenticeships give people in employment the opportunity to work towards an industry recognised accreditation. Information about apprenticeships for individuals, employers and learning providers.

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Skills Development Scotland is a non-departmental public body which brought together the careers, skills, training and funding services of Careers Scotland, Scottish University for Industry (learndirect scotland) and the skills functions of Scottish Enterprise and Highlands & Islands Enterprise.

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Paisley centre closure
Our centre in Causeyside Street, Paisley has been forced to close again because of continuing problems with the building....
Redundancy support in the Western Isles
Two PACE (Partnership Action for Continuing Employment) redundancy support events - one in Stornoway and one in Uist - are...
Redundancy support in Inverness
People recently made redundant from construction company UBC are being invited to an event to help them back into employment....

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