Employability & Skills
A key priority for the SFC is to improve the employability of learners and their skills development. This is an important area of public policy because of the impact that skills and employability have on individual life chances, the performance of our economy and our public services.
Working with Scotland's colleges, universities and other partners, we seek a system of further and higher education in which, through the provision of high quality education and learning, students have enhanced their general and specific skills, their confidence, self-reliance, motivation, knowledge and capacities in ways that:
- meet the needs and expectations of employers in Scotland, the rest of the UK and internationally;
- lead to improved utilisation of skills in the workplace; and
- contribute to improved personal, social, civic and cultural outcomes for the people of Scotland.
Through the work of our Skills Committee, we aim to improve the understanding of the skills needs of different areas of the economy and society more generally. The Committee works closely with the Scottish Government, employers, business organisations and students to ensure that Scotland has the right high-level skills and an employable and adaptive workforce.
More information about how we support employability work in colleges and universities can be found in Learning to Work.