{"id":16798,"date":"2017-08-02T14:50:31","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T13:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/eslb\/?p=16798"},"modified":"2017-08-02T14:50:31","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T13:50:31","slug":"skills-scotland-events-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/2017\/08\/02\/skills-scotland-events-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Skills Scotland Events 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"LEFT\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/eslb\/files\/2017\/08\/SkillsScotland-2017.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16800 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/eslb\/files\/2017\/08\/SkillsScotland-2017-300x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>The Skills Scotland events are held in three key locations \u2013 Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow \u00a0aiming to close the gap between the workplace and the classroom by\u00a0linking industry with education.<\/p>\n<p>Connecting young people with careers, jobs, skills and apprenticeship opportunities, Skills Scotland is aimed at students aged S4 and above.<br \/>\nIn each region schools, colleges, youth and community groups are<br \/>\ninvited to attend with free entry for students and teachers with<br \/>\naccess to a travel bursary fund. All events are also open to parents<br \/>\nand carers with a dedicated evening opening session in Glasgow.<br \/>\nSkills Scotland offers an immediate way for industry to influence and<br \/>\neducate the next generation of talent, supporting recommendations<br \/>\nfrom the Wood report and offering solutions to issues such as youth<br \/>\nunemployment and the growing industry skills gaps.<br \/>\nAcross the series over 170 educational establishments will meet with<br \/>\nin excess of 120 exhibitors to learn about recruitment, learning and<br \/>\ntraining opportunities. Each show is a one stop shop for young<br \/>\npeople to discover what\u2019s next and meet with a variety of exhibitors<br \/>\nface to face including regional and national employers, colleges and<br \/>\nuniversities plus training providers and other career or sector specific organisations.<\/p>\n<p>Access the events flyer here:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/eslb\/files\/2017\/08\/SScot17ExhibitorBrochureDIGITAL.pdf\">SScot17ExhibitorBrochureDIGITAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Skills Scotland events are held in three key locations \u2013 Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow \u00a0aiming to close the gap between the workplace and the classroom by\u00a0linking industry with education. Connecting young people with careers, jobs, skills and apprenticeship opportunities, Skills Scotland is aimed at students aged S4 and above. In each region schools, colleges, youth and community groups are invited to attend with free entry for students and teachers<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/2017\/08\/02\/skills-scotland-events-2017\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72655,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,82,39],"tags":[198,81,54,75,94,221,8,222,52,29],"class_list":["post-16798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cld","category-senior-phase","category-skills","tag-apprenticeship","tag-college","tag-dyw","tag-employability","tag-employability-skills","tag-events","tag-partnership-working","tag-s4","tag-skills-for-learning-life-and-work","tag-stem"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72655"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}