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College students like Louise are benefiting from our collaboration with partners to deliver a better match between skills training and employment demand.
Find out moreScotland has a dynamic and responsive skills system.
An effective skills system is one where skills planning and provision reflects the current and future skills needs of the economy, giving all individual learners and employers the best possible chance of realising their potential.
An efficient system encourages people to transition from full-time education into productive, sustainable and meaningful work by the quickest, most expedient route available.
Our role remains to ensure skills planning, investment and delivery become increasingly demand-led, informed by relevant, timely intelligence and engaged employers, actively contributing to skills design and development.
We are committed to progressing the early work already undertaken to help ensure that Scotland’s skills system delivers the best outcomes for the economy, supporting productivity and inclusive growth.
We have developed and published Skills Investment Plans across
0sectors and all regions
We have engaged with over
020 Industry Leadership Groups and Sector Skills Groups since 2015 to inform skills provision
One of the key recommendations for SDS from the Strategic Board’s Strategic Plan is to progress delivery of the 5-stage skills alignment model.
Adopting a demand-led approach to learning and skills provision will be critical to supporting people and businesses to thrive in the future and will be a key focus for SDS in the next three years.
To achieve this, we will rely on working in close collaboration with the SFC and the enterprise agencies, industry and employers, and wider stakeholders, but we will also ensure our work based learning provision evolves to lead the required change.
College students like Louise are benefiting from our collaboration with partners to deliver a better match between skills training and employment demand.
Find out moreIf you'd like to read our Strategic Plan for 2019-22 in full you can download it here. For more information on how we're influencing the learning and skills system, view pages 33-37.
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