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    Sector Qualifications Strategy - Skillset

    February 2010
    As the Sector Skills Council for the Audio Visual Industries, Skillset is responsible for working with industry, government, key partners and stakeholders to identify and tackle the skills and productivity needs of the sector throughout the UK.
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    Sector Qualifications Strategy - Skillsmart Retail

    February 2010
    Skillsmart Retail participated with a small group of colleague Sector Skills Councils (SSCs) and QCA in developing a qualification strategy with the pilot programme initiated in April 2004, completing a draft policy late 2005.
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    Sector Qualifications Strategy - Summit Skills

    February 2010
    SummitSkills works closely with HE and professional institutes to ensure that relevant qualifications reflect, as appropriate, requirements for entry and progression in terms of structure, content and assessment.
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    Sector Qualifications Strategy - Skills for Care & Development

    February 2010
    Skills for Care and Development (SfC&D) is an Alliance of five organisations across the four countries of the UK. Alliance partners have, for an extensive amount of time, been working on the development of solutions to the learning needs for the sector.
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    Towards Ambition 2020: skills, jobs, growth for Scotland

    February 2010
    Scotland’s future prospects – its route out of recession, its chances of a successful recovery, and sustainable economic progress thereafter – depend on the industries, businesses and jobs it is able to create, and on having the skilled workforce it needs to do those jobs well.
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    2010 Review: The Integration of Employment and Skills

    February 2010
    The UK Commission has been charged by Government to review, in 2010, the progress that is being made in integrating employment and skills systems in Great Britain and to provide advice on what more needs to be done to further integration.
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    UK Employment and Skills Almanac 2009

    February 2010
    The UK Employment and Skills Almanac 2009 provides a comparable, comprehensive, and robust labour market information resource alongside the Almanac Online 2009 website (https://almanac09.ukces.org.uk). Four key themes are identified which are used to structure the report: productivity, employment, skills, and inequality. Indicators are presented across UK nations, regions, sectors, sector skills councils, and various socio-economic groupings, with international benchmarking for the UK undertaken where possible.
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    National Employer Skills Survey for England 2009: Key findings report

    March 2010
    This Evidence Report presents the Key Findings from the National Employer Skills Survey for England 2009 (NESS09), the newest edition of a time series of surveys that was established by the Learning and Skills Council in 2003.
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    Strategic Skills Needs in the Low Carbon Energy Generation Sector

    Strategic Skills Needs in the Low Carbon Energy Generation Sector

    March 2010
    This report provides an assessment of the skills needs in the low carbon energy generation sector to 2020. For the purpose of this exercise the sector comprises wind, marine, microgeneration, carbon capture and storage, and nuclear sub sectors. The study is part of a wider exercise designed to contribute towards the UK Commission’s overall response to strategic skills, the National Strategic Skills Audit for England 2010.
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    Strategic Skills Needs in the Low Carbon Energy Generation Sector - Executive Summary

    March 2010
    This report provides an assessment of the skills needs in the low carbon energy generation sector to 2020. For the purpose of this exercise the sector comprises wind, marine, microgeneration, carbon capture and storage, and nuclear sub sectors. The study is part of a wider exercise designed to contribute towards the UK Commission’s overall response to strategic skills, the National Strategic Skills Audit for England 2010.