34 . Glasgow Business December 2016
COLLABORATION IS KEY TO DEVELOPING SKILLS
Developing the Young Workforce Glasgow Influencers’ Dinner with Bailie Liz Cameron
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lasgow’s young people are delivering record results when it comes to passing national school exams. Now, the city’s organisations
seeking to bring successful young people into the workplace must collaborate to help develop the vital skills that are required, said Bailie Liz Cameron, Glasgow’s former Lord Provost. Bailie Cameron, who is also the
Vice-Chairman of the Glasgow Economic Leadership forum, was speaking at the Developing the Young Workforce Influencers’ Dinner at Anchorline, St Vincent Place, Glasgow, in September. Te event, with 40 people in atendance, including members of the Developing the Young Workforce Glasgow team, welcomed representatives from all of
Bailie Liz Cameron, Vice-Chairman of the Glasgow Economic Leadership forum
the major further and higher education establishments in Glasgow, plus several of the city’s most significant businesses, including Laing O’Rourke, Glasgow Airport, Barclays, PwC, Morgan Stanley, Barrhead Travel and Arnold
Clark. Other major organisations at the event were Skills Development Scotland, Scotish Water and the Wheatley Group. Bailie Cameron outlined the progress which
Glasgow City Council’s education department has made over the last few years improving the positive destinations of young people year on year, with more young people going into further and higher education than ever before. She said Glasgow’s excellent exam results
were beter this year than ever before and she highlighted the need for broader and deeper types of learning. She also spoke about the work the
education department is doing with the colleges and Skills Development Scotland to strengthen the vocational learning opportunities for young people in schools and why employers are vitally important to that work. She mentioned the need to focus on areas of job growths for young people – such as soſtware engineering – and highlighted the excellent work the department is doing to support STEM subjects. Te councillor also called for more
people in Glasgow to mentor disadvantaged young people through MCR Pathways and Career Ready.
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