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19 April 2024

Delivering Scotland’s Career Service 2022/23

The fifth annual report on our career services outlines the positive contribution made by SDS advisers and our partners through their work in communities across Scotland.

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17 April 2024

Scotland’s heritage sector publish roadmap to help tackle skills gap

Future skills strategy launched following sector-wide collaboration.

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16 April 2024

New location for the career service in Hamilton

Skills Development Scotland (SDS) is changing location as part of a drive to help more people through closer partnership working.

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19 March 2024

New chapter for career services in Oban

Residents in Oban are set to benefit from changes to the career service.

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18 March 2024

New Deputy Chair for Scotland’s Digital Economy Skills Group.

NEOS Networks’ Lesley MacRury takes over the post

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14 March 2024

Changes to the careers service in Thurso

Skills Development Scotland (SDS) is changing location in Thurso as part of a drive to help more people through partnership working in community venues.

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11 March 2024

Bioeconomy Week Scotland blog: Sarah Hunt

SDS Sector Manager for Life Sciences, Sarah Hunt, highlights and celebrates the achievements of the sector and its importance to Scotland as a whole.

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08 March 2024

Butcher Marc is a cut above as he’s named Scotland’s Apprentice of the Year

A craft butcher from Falkirk who credits his apprenticeship with changing his life has been named as Scotland’s Apprentice of the Year.

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04 March 2024

#ScotAppWeek24 Blog: Fiaz Khan, CEMVO Scotland

Fiaz Khan, Race Equality Mainstream Officer at CEMVO Scotland, highlights a partnership with SDS aimed at improving understanding of race equality to support apprenticeship recruitment.

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04 March 2024

Apprenticeships generating skills for Scotland

Businesses and young people across the country are backing apprenticeships to support skills generation.