Skills for Scotland: Accelerating the Recovery and Increasing Sustainable Economic Growth
The strategy is structured around four key priority themes:
– empowering people to ensure they have the opportunity to access the right
advice, support and opportunities to acquire the skills and attributes to both
contribute to and benefit from future economic success;
– supporting employers by better understanding and assessing the skills they
need for future success, and ensuring that the supply of skills, training and
qualifications can be responsive to this;
– simplifying the skills system to ensure that it is more coherent and easy to
understand for individuals and employers;
– strengthening partnerships and collective responsibility between public, private
and third sectors to help improve skills and the contribution they make towards
achieving Scotland’s social and economic aspirations.
The strategy aims to promote equal access to and participation in skills, career
information, advice and guidance and learning activities for everyone. It is intended
to promote equality of opportunity to those who face persistent disadvantage and to
improve the numbers of people economically active across all groups within society.