Role of Colleges in the Economic Recovery

As an amendment to motion S3M-04956 in the name of Fiona Hyslop (Role of Colleges in the Economic Recovery), insert at end “and calls on the Scottish Government to review the current system of discretionary childcare funding, to work closely with the Scottish Further and Higher Education Funding Council to develop articulation routes between further and higher education, helping to address problems that students face during transition and enhancing and developing links between the sectors, and, in recognising the valuable role of Scotland’s colleges in skills development, to bring the revised skills strategy before the Parliament to allow detailed debate of its recommendations.”