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.
Work with Skills Development Scotland to reach new learners. Become an ILA Scotland approved learning provider or help us to deliver national training programmes for the benefit of individuals across Scotland.
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.
When Skills Development Scotland was launched in April 2008, it marked the start of a step change in the delivery of careers, skills and training services in Scotland. In Skills Development Scotland we are tasked with catalysing real and positive change in Scotland's skills performance by linking skills supply and demand more effectively and helping people and organisations learn, develop and utilise these skills to greater effect.
Our vision is to be a catalyst for positive change in Scotland's skills performance. To achieve our purpose and vision, we have devised three goals, each with key strategies which articulate our unique contribution to the achievement of the Scottish Government's Economic Strategy (GES). In turn, each key strategy is delivered through key services and key strategic partnerships.
Our team is made up of 1400 people in a network of public access centres and offices across Scotland. In our first two years of operation we have created a forward-looking organisational structure, recruited staff to complete our skills requirement and are now working to finalise and implement the systems, processes and programmes needed to support our strategy.
Nominate an apprentice, employer, learning provider or partnership for a Scottish Modern Apprenticeship Award.
Flexible Training Opportunities give Scottish businesses with under 50 employees the opportunity to apply for up to £5,000 towards employee training costs.
Scuba diving company Aquatron has breathed fresh life into its expanding team thanks to new Flexible Training Opportunities funded by Skills Development Scotland.
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The UK oil and gas industry has embarked on a major data gathering exercise as it prepares for a projected rise in activity across the North Sea.