Informed Scotland February 2019 – Inclusive, empowered, connected
There was no shortage of learning and skills activity in blink-and-you-missed-it February. A range of hot topics, familiar and new, presented themselves across the landscape.
Inclusion was referenced in all sectors:
There is a new SCQF Inclusive Recruiter campaign; a new Creative Scotland Create:Inclusion Fund; a new HUB for SUCCESS offering support to care experienced young people in Edinburgh; and a new Prince’s Trust project to develop digital skills for unemployed and underemployed 16–30 year-olds across the UK backed by Google.org.
There was a report on Building a World-Leading AI and Data Strategy for an Inclusive Scotland by SCDI and partners; a new Addressing inclusion guide for teachers on challenging racism in schools by the Coalition for Racial Equality & Rights and respectme; and a discussion paper on Disabled students at university by the Commissioner for Fair Access.
Other reports to highlight this month include:
- The first annual progress report on the STEM Education & Training Strategy
- Education Scotland’s first draft materials for an ‘empowered system’, including a draft Headteachers’ Charter
- A study of young people making music by the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
- An interim review of Regional Improvement Collaboratives
- A UPP Foundation report on the importance of the civic university.
And look out for affordable coworking spaces opening up in libraries across the country, thanks to SLIC’s imaginative new Scottish Coworking Network. Take it from one who knows: coworking is to be recommended for micro-businesses, freelancers or start-ups – it absolutely creates opportunities for cross-fertilisation of learning and ideas!
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