Who’s where in Scottish learning & skills? 2024
The 12th Informed Scotland Organisations & People Special has just been published to coincide with the start of the 2024–25 academic session.
This annual snapshot of an active, ever-changing landscape helps Informed subscribers quickly locate the key learning & skills organisations and make sense of where they fit into the bigger picture. They find it a useful directory of the main bodies and institutions operating across business, education, community & adult learning, government and wider society.
There are links to over 430 organisations – over twice as many as in the first edition in 2013 – with 15 organisations included for the first time. Listings include:
- Skills, training, careers and qualifications bodies
- Sector-specific skills organisations
- Local authority education departments
- Colleges and universities
- Teacher education institutions
- Developing the Young Workforce regional groups
- Knowledge exchange, research pools and innovation centres
- Subject associations and networks
- National resources, libraries and science centres.
Notes throughout highlight the changes over the past year, including numerous new appointments, promotions and retirements among senior leaders and key contacts.
Four organisations have been rebranded/renamed, including the Scottish Council for Development & Industry – now Prosper, and its Young Engineers & Science Clubs Scotland – now Stemovators.
Sadly, four long-standing organisations closed during the year. Gone are:
- Scottish European Educational Trust (SEET) after 30 years; thankfully SEET’s two main projects will continue, having been picked up by SCILT (Scotland’s National Centre for Languages)
- Creative & Cultural Skills after 18 years
- Remarkable, previously Investors in People Scotland, after over 30 years
- Scottish Universities Insight Institute after ten years.
And Curiosity Collective, previously Children’s University Scotland, is in the process of winding down after ten years.
Become an Informed Scotland subscriber at any point and receive a copy of the Special – last year a subscriber said it was ‘a great resource’ that they ‘would highly recommend to education and skills colleagues operating in Scotland’. And although changes continue, the monthly digests keep you updated throughout the year.
This is the tip of the information iceberg: become an Informed Scotland subscriber so you can keep on top of all the developments. Email [email protected] to request a sample copy.