I know that that has worked in the past; it has certainly worked in Orkney.iiiEEFW Committee meeting, 15 September 2020, col 22
Tracey Innes, Head of Careers and Employability, University of Aberdeen and Convenor for AGCAS (Association of Careers Advisory Service) Scotland agreed but said that the funding landscape is cluttered and needs to be better connected:
It can be confusing for employers to work out how best to tap into some of the incentive funding with just one university, let alone across the whole of that landscape.ivEEFW Committee meeting, 15 September 2020, col 23
Gordon McGuinness of SDS spoke of the need for co-ordination of schemes across the UK; they must be co-ordinated so that there are not competing offers, resulting in employers making decisions that are based not on the longer term but on what they can secure financially from the system.vEFFW Committee meeting, 25 August 2o2o, col 7 The Minister for Business and Skills said that they are considering carefully how a specific recruitment incentive for employers might be deployed; he explained that this approach is not entirely new...