Informed Scotland May 2022 – Adult learning & the young workforce
This edition marks 10 years since the first issue of Informed Scotland!
As long-standing subscribers and followers know, each year at this point I like to remind us all that in May 2012 youth unemployment in Scotland stood at a miserable 23.1%. It currently stands at a much improved 5.6%, which looks even more impressive when compared to the UK’s 9.7%. And yet challenges remain, albeit not all the same.
Developing the young workforce is still a hot topic, with more Young Person’s Guarantee funding announced, and numerous new initiatives to prepare young people for work or to help them make better informed career decisions.
Examples include City of Edinburgh Council’s new construction industry Skills Academy; Dundee & Angus College and Dundee City Council’s new RISE (Raising Interpersonal Skills for Employment) course; and a new School leavers toolkit published by Skills Development Scotland on the My World of Work website.
It was good to see adult learning as a hot topic in May, with publication of the long-awaited first Adult Learning Strategy for Scotland. To help subscribers, Informed 101 includes the strategy’s 23 actions in an Annex.
Other items to highlight:
- The final report from the Commissioner for Fair Access, alongside the Scottish Funding Council’s annual Report on Widening Access
- Education Scotland’s ‘thematic review’ by HM Inspectors of Local approaches to recovery from the pandemic by schools
- The 2021 Research Excellence Framework on the quality of research in universities
- A report on the state of Cyber Security Skills in the UK Labour Market from the UK Government
- A study of What influences the choices international students make? by UCAS and College Board
- Consultations on data collection for the National Improvement Framework (closes 18 July) and school uniforms (closes 14 October).
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