Angus and North East Creating Talent Pool for the Future

The motion

That the Parliament welcomes Angus College Engineering Team’s success at the inaugural UK Engineering Construction Awards in London, where it achieved first place in the Innovation Award - Training Provider category; congratulates the team, represented at the ceremony by Roddy Scott and Jim Stewart, on its victory and, it considers, for placing Angus College among the leading skill-builders in the country who are helping to create an expanding talent pool of apprentices for the North Sea oil and gas industry; notes that the college has trained 200 design apprentices over a five-year period; considers that the victory is a result of its close working relationship with the Engineering Construction Industry Training Board and a number of major offshore services companies on the design and draughting modern apprenticeship programme; believes that encouraging a new generation of Scottish talent toward this key sector is a vital component of ensuring that Scotland continues what is considered its tradition of creating world leaders in engineering, industry, academia and the sciences, and expresses the hope that Angus and the north east will also help to provide a wealth of talented individuals, who will play their part in the re-industrialisation of the country through the burgeoning renewables industry, bringing further people and investment to Scotland, and provide a new generation of Scots with jobs that will last a lifetime.

No recorded vote on this motion. Most motions are never debated, and many that are debated are agreed without a division. Vote records are published from 2011.

SNP 23 Con 2 LD 1

Party shown is each supporter’s party when the motion was published.

No contribution in the Official Report cites S4M-02747 by reference.