News - Press releases: Leader: Young Scots Need Real Skills Now More Than Ever.. The Scotsman
IF ANY reminders were needed about the formidable challenge ahead in creating new streams of employment for Scotland's school and university leavers, two reports we highlight today bring these into sharp focus.
Only last week Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon declared in the Scottish parliament that £750 million of new renewable electricity projects began generating in Scotland in the past 12 months and that there was a pipeline of renewable electricity projects, amounting to "a total estimated capital investment of £46 billion, ready to create thousands of new jobs for Scotland". But euphoric hopes that this would bring a bonanza in high value-added employment for Scots are doused by sobering research by recruitment consultants Taylor Hopkinson Associates.
