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There is a huge appetite in the college sector to be very active in engaging with employers. We have pump-primed some of the ability to do that and get additional income in through the flexible workforce development fund and the apprenticeship programmes.
The Scottish Government also mentioned that a common classification issue is that people classify too many activities as preventative. To get around this, the “primary purpose” principle is applied, where an activity is only classed as preventative if its primary purpose is an...
We are concerned that placing a new duty on us to undertake year-round activity – going beyond stating what we should do to specify how we should do it –would restrict our ability to be led by the evidence and by user testing, and would risk value for money in this work by requiring us to carry out activity which we ...
The member will be aware that I engage regularly with local authorities and with a diverse group of leaders in sport and physical activity across Scotland. That is exactly the sort of territory that we like to get into.
Very few people are prepared to publicly criticise HIE activities on the mountain in case this results in a diminution of grant support for their own businesses or other activities.