Extensive collaboration aims to encourage employer investment in workplace learning

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Extensive collaboration aims to encourage employer investment in workplace learning

15 Jun 2006

21 Sector Skill Councils and 6 Sector Skill Bodies are working together to drive forward the development of a skilled and competitive Scottish workforce through the innovative and effective project; Promoting Workplace Learning. The project’s main vehicle of dissemination, an interactive DVD, will be launched at a major skills event on the 20th June 2006. Employers, key stakeholders and Scottish ministers will be attending to celebrate the unveiling.

This Collaborative Project hopes to encourage investment in work-related learning and raise employer awareness of what constitutes cost effective and fit-for-purpose training. A recent report by Futureskills Scotland intimated that less than two-thirds of workplaces had funded or arranged training in the preceding 12 months. It is hoped the Promoting Workplace Learning project can help to improve this statistic and Scotlandâ€™s place as a competitive economy.

21 Sector Skill Councils (SSCs) along with 6 Sector Skill Bodies (SSBs) have come together to deliver and disseminate the Promoting Workplace Learning project. It is the first time so many SSBs and SSCs have worked together in such a coordinated way. Working in collaboration provides a scale that individual Sector Skills Councils and Bodies cannot achieve. This alliance is likely to promote further partnership working and establish an economy of scale for future SSC and SSB activity in Scotland.

Significantly, all Key Stakeholders involved with the Lifelong learning agenda across Scotland are united in support of this project.

Other delivery partners include learndirect scotland, Futureskills Scotland, SSAScot and the Scottish Executive who are co-sponsors of the Promoting Workplace Learning project, together with the European Structural Fund.

Allan Wilson MSP, Deputy Minister for Enterprise and Lifelong Learning, and other Scottish ministers are supportive of what the project is trying to achieve. "The Scottish Executive are pleased to be co-sponsors of this project as it targets an important area of the Scottish economy - inproving investment in our workforce.”