What are Graduate Apprenticeships?

What are Graduate Apprenticeships? Graduate Apprenticeships (GA) at Edinburgh Napier University offer high quality work-based learning to strengthen the skills people and businesses need. Available to businesses of any size in Scotland, they provide a...

Build a brighter future with an apprentice

Scottish Apprenticeship Week returns on 7-11 March 2022, and Business Scotland is supporting the event to show the value of apprentices to people, business and the economy. This year’s theme, ‘Apprenticeships Work’ aims to highlight...

Moray College UHI … at the heart of the business community

At the heart of the Moray business community, Moray College UHI has years of experience working with local businesses to provide customised training programmes which support business growth and employee development. Their lecturing and training...

Scottish skills gap a long-term challenge for employers

Scottish businesses are suffering from a significant skills gap and they don’t expect the situation to get much better in the near future. So says The Open University’s (OU) Business Barometer Report 2021, produced...

British Army joins forces with CrisisCast to develop revolutionary virtual reality training

Working closely in partnership with the British Army, expert disaster and crisis management organisation, CrisisCast, has announced the pilot of a virtual reality platform developed to assist Armed Forces training in human emotions and...

British Army joins forces with CrisisCast to develop revolutionary virtual reality training

Working closely in partnership with the British Army, expert disaster and crisis management organisation, CrisisCast, has announced the pilot of a virtual reality platform developed to assist Armed Forces training in human emotions and...

Intelligencia Training launches new Data and Security Apprenticeships

Three apprenticeship programmes added to Intelligencia Training’s portfolio, will provide new training opportunities within Data Analyst, Data Technician and Security Management provisions. Intelligencia Training has announced the addition of the Level 4 Data Analyst Apprenticeship...

Water Industry welcomes UK’s first Higher-Level Qualification in Developer Services Management

Following accreditation from Ofqual, training provider Learning & Development Associates (L&DA) has announced the launch of the Level 5 Certificate and Award in Developer Services Management. The new programme, which will represent the UK’s first...

Exam results highlight greater diversity in future pathways

Reaching the next stop on the new Scottish education exam journey, the community at Robert Gordon’s College is celebrating wider further education choices, exciting future career pathways and a growing interest in US and...

Building back skills post COVID-19

Dr Liz Cameron OBE, Chief Executive of SCC highlights the skills challenges ahead and how apprenticeships form a vital part of the solution. The pandemic has brought to the forefront skills challenges that existed pre-pandemic...