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Written Question · S3W-04858 · Session 3

Whether it will list the skills and training work currently delivered by HIE Shetland and detail how it will be delivered in Shetland after…

Answered Asked by Tavish Scott LD Lodged 2 Oct 2007

The question

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list the skills and training work currently delivered by HIE Shetland and detail how it will be delivered in Shetland after the skills and training elements of the enterprise network are passed to the new skills body.

The answer

Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 25 Oct 2007 · 23 days after it was lodged, on time

The skillsand training work currently delivered by Highlands and Islands Enterprise Shetlandis:
Managementand Leadership Training
FirstSteps into Business courses
FirstSteps into Community Enterprise Training
Shortcourses on general business topics including: Marketing and Promotion, Selling,Basic book-keeping etc
ModernApprenticeships
Skillseekers
Get Readyfor Work
Workforcedevelopment grants to support businesses.
Thoseaspects of the enterprise networks skills and training activity related to individualsand their employability skills and training will be the responsibility of the newskills body. This relates to National Training Programmes including Get Ready forWork, Skillseekers, modern apprenticeships and Training for Work. They will be theresponsibility of the new skills body. At this stage it is not possible to be specificas to how these will be delivered in Shetland. Local delivery options and discussionswith key partners will now take place and it is my intention to consider the continuationof local delivery by Highlands and Islands Enterprise as one of the options forskills and training in the Highlands and Islands area.

In the Official Report

No contribution in the Official Report cites S3W-04858 by reference.