We are committed to developing and growing a worldclass work-based learning system in Scotland. Apprenticeships demonstrate and promote the benefits work-based learning brings to businesses, individuals and the Scottish economy.
Scottish Apprenticeships
Apprenticeships help individuals build the experience and skills that employers want to see.
SDS administers Scottish Apprenticeships on behalf of Scottish Government, which incorporates Foundation Apprenticeships (FAs), Modern Apprenticeships (MAs) and Graduate Apprenticeships (GAs).
Scottish Apprenticeships continue to expand in line with the Scottish Government’s Youth Employment Strategy ambition to reach 30,000 apprenticeship starts annually by 2020.
We aim to achieve this target by:
- developing and delivering new apprenticeship models that expand the scale and reach of work-based learning options
- strategically expanding existing Modern Apprenticeship provision
- focusing on key sectors, in line with employer demand
- improving the availability of high quality, valued, work-based learning opportunities, putting them on a par with existing academic routes to learning
With greater opportunity for taking up apprenticeships, there is also scope to enable individuals to move from education to employment more quickly – saving public money, raising tax receipts and saving individuals’ time in education and training.
In 2017/18
0individuals started an apprenticeship
