🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

"The question I would ask is, what is the Bill doing to ensure that Scotland will have the workforce to unlock £230 billion worth of investment?" - Damien Yeates, Skills Development Scotland Watch yesterday's meeting on the Tertiary Education and Training Bill: ow.ly/xyfE50VP8Un

We'll continue our consideration of the Tertiary Education and Training Bill tomorrow. We'll hear from Colleges Scotland, Universities Scotland, ADES, NUS Scotland, Esteem Training Ltd, SDC-LEARN, SNIPEF and Tullos Training Ltd. Watch live from 9am: ow.ly/m15K50VROMR

Our evidence sessions has just started. Watch live: ow.ly/9PVm50VSiBE

🆕"We were particularly disappointed to hear about the lack of progress made on a Unique Learner Number." Read our new report into progress on widening access to higher education: ow.ly/rq3T50VT1pV

We continued our scrutiny of the Tertiary Education and Training (Funding and Governance) (Scotland) Bill. Sir Paul Grice, representing Universities Scotland, was among the witnesses. Watch our evidence session from this week: ow.ly/J8Ig50VTcM0

Training was a major theme in our scrutiny of the Tertiary Education and Training (Funding and Governance) (Scotland) Bill this week. We heard from Phiona Rae from Tullos Training Ltd ⬇ Catch up with the meeting: ow.ly/U2SM50VTcYR

"Colleges are fighting tooth and nail to produce the most efficient organisational delivery models they possibly can." - Jon Vincent, Colleges Scotland Watch this week's evidence session on the Tertiary Education and Training Bill: ow.ly/gYor50VTkju

This week we published a new report on widening access to higher education. While @ScotGov's targets remain achievable, our report recommends steps that it should take to ensure it achieves them. Read the report: ow.ly/WgY950VTSib

We continued our consider of the Tertiary Education and Training (Funding and Governance) (Scotland) Bill. Sarah Dalrymple from SDC-LEARN was on the panel to share her views as a training provider. Catch up with the meeting: ow.ly/y65k50VTle8

At 9am tomorrow we'll continue our consideration of the Tertiary Education and Training Bill with EIS, @PCS Union, UNISON Scotland, UCU Scotland and Unite Scotland, followed by FSB Scotland, the Scottish Apprenticeship Advisory Board and Women's Enterprise Scotland.

This morning's meeting has just started. Find out more about the Tertiary Education and Training Bill: ow.ly/2xE850VW9H5 Watch this morning's evidence session live: ow.ly/fVPK50VW9Gj

We took further evidence on the Tertiary Education and Training (Funding and Governance) (Scotland) Bill this morning. 🗣 Sarah Collins from EIS was among the panellists. Catch up: ow.ly/wump50VWtxS

"It feels so egregious that the Scottish Government has not behaved in the way that [Skills Development Scotland staff] expect going through this particular reform." Liam Davenport, PCS Union (pcs.org.uk) View our scrutiny of the Tertiary Education and Training Bill: ow.ly/LBU050VXa2o

"There's huge numbers of young people looking to access these apprenticeships." - Vikki Manson, FSB Scotland Catch up with our evidence on the Tertiary Education and Training Bill: ow.ly/wZJw50VXalS

"... What do the best countries do? Typically they invest much more than us in vocational education and training." - Paul Campbell, Scottish Apprenticeship Advisory Board (SAAB) Watch this week's evidence on the Tertiary Education and Training Bill: ow.ly/b54850VXaYG

🆕 A Bill aims to minimise the use of restraint and seclusion in schools. Our committee wants to understand the implications of adopting this approach on children and young people, parents, teachers and school staff. Share your views by Friday 11 July: ow.ly/6FbX50VZyPl

We'll continue our scrutiny of the Tertiary Education and Training Bill this morning. We'll hear from @graemedeymsp, Minister for Higher and Further Education and Minister for Veterans. Watch live from 9.30am: ow.ly/sINx50VZzp9

During passage of the Education (Scotland) Bill, a key theme that has been raised is the accreditation of qualifications. Our latest blog discusses accreditation in Scotland, how this compares to the rest of the UK, and possible Stage 3 changes to the Bill:ow.ly/B2If50W3ceu