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Education and Training (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2001
To assist us this morning, we have a figure who is well known to the committee—Allan Wilson, the team leader for the individual learning accounts and lifelong learning targets section of the enterprise and lifelong learning department. Does Allan want to add comments to the paperwork that we have?
We are removing the maximum number of 100,000 awards as a result of a policy review that the minister undertook. She is keen to avoid unnecessarily complicating matters for users and learning providers, who may find the change from one system to a second system to a third system unnecessarily difficult.
Is it true to say that the minister is considering setting specific targets for target groups in future?
It is true to say that she is considering how best to support target groups. There has not yet been any decision on whether specific targets should be set for those groups as it is difficult to determine how to define the groups themselves, never mind the targets for them.
Does the committee agree that there are no issues to raise in respect of the regulations?
Members indicated agreement.
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