Employability & enterprise
A key objective in the SFC Corporate plan 2009-12 [PDF] is to enhance the relevance of skills and the employability of people wishing to enter the workforce.
SFC's strategy for promoting employability flows from its discussion paper, Learning to work [PDF] which was published in November 2004 and the associated implementation plan, published in Employability: Implementation Plan for Learning to Work (Circular SFC/12/2006, 10 March 2006: see SFC archive).
The Skills Committee is responsible for monitoring the implementation plan.
Reports and publications
Employer engagement
- Review Employer Engagement and Knowledge Transfer Year 1 report [PDF] is the first of three reports evaluating the impact of the Developing Employer Engagement Programme (DEEP) and Knowledge Transfer Grant (KTG) capacity building programmes for SFC.
- Review of Employer Engagement and Knowledge Transfer Year 2 report; and
- the final evaluation will be in 2011.
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Allocation of additional funding to colleges for employer engagement and knowledge transfer (Circular SFC/38/2007, see SFC archive) announces a programme of funding to support employer engagement and knowledge transfer in Scotland’s colleges.
Knowledge transfer
- The Report of the Joint SHEFC/Universities Scotland Knowledge Transfer Taskforce and update on the Knowledge Transfer and Innovation Group (Circular SFC/44/2006: see SFC archive) announced the SFC's endorsement of joint SHEFC/Universities Scotland Knowledge Transfer Taskforce's report on knowledge transfer in higher education institutions.
- Knowledge Transfer Grant: cultural engagement strategy (Circular SFC/59/2006, see SFC archive) provides guidance for a cultural engagement strategy.
- Knowledge transfer activities in Scotland's colleges (Circular SFC/60/2006, see SFC archive) provides an update on knowledge transfer activities in colleges.
- Knowledge transfer grant: collection of activity data (Circular SFC/65/2006, see SFC archive)
- Knowledge transfer grant: collection of activity data from higher education institutions (Circular SFC/46/2007, see SFC archive)
- Knowledge transfer activities in Scotland's colleges: baseline study results (Circular SFC/58/2007, see SFC archive) provides the executive summary of the baseline study of knowledge transfer activity in Scotland’s colleges.
- Allocation of additional funding for knowledge transfer (Circular SFC/63/2007, 21 December 2007 see SFC archive)
- College knowledge transfer grant 2008-09 (Circular SFC/32/2008, 20 June 2008) sets out arrangements for knowledge transfer funding for the college sector in 2008-09 including the return of knowledge transfer related income data.
Employability
- Employability: strategic funding for higher education institutions (Circular SFC/82/2006, see SFC archive) announced a programme of strategic funding for employability in Scotland’s higher education institutions.
- Employability in colleges: baseline study and next steps (Circular SFC/15/2007 - see SFC archive) presents the outcomes of a baseline report on employability related activity in Scotland’s colleges, and identifies some proposed priorities for further developmental activity. (Read the baseline study Employability Summary Report [PDF] and the Employability Final Report [PDF])
- Employability: strategic funding for higher education institutions (Circular SFC/29/2008)