For Immediate Release
The Modern Apprenticeship Project with Scottish Union Learning began in June 2010 to develop and increase trade union activity and engagement with the Modern Apprenticeship programme in Scotland.
There are a number of ways in which trade unions can get involved with the Modern Apprenticeship Project. Scottish Union Learning is building a bank of Case Studies to promote trade union engagement with the Modern Apprenticeship programme.
Scottish Union Learning is also undertaking a Modern Apprenticeship Project survey that is designed to find out about union awareness of, and involvement in, Modern Apprenticeships. Scottish Union Learning will use these results to support unions in working with Modern Apprentices. The survey is on-going and the results will be published in 2011. Workers can participate in the survey by visiting www.surveymonkey. com/s/modernapprenticeshipproject.
Workers can also engage with the project through a sub-section of the Scottish Union Learning website, which provides background to Modern Apprenticeships with signposts to further information. This can be accessed at www.scottishunionlearning.com/apprenticeships. Additionally, there is a section on the Scottish Union Learning Online Forum dedicated to Modern Apprenticeships at forum.scottishunionlearning.com.
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Notes for Editors
Skills Development Scotland provided funding to support the project, in partnership with Scottish Union Learning.
Scottish Union Learning was launched in May 2008. The Scottish Government allocated just under £4.25m to Scottish Union Learning and union-led learning initiatives until March 2011. Scottish Union Learning works in partnership with unions to drive forward trade union led learning in Scotland and administers the Scottish Union Learning Fund (SULF), the Learning Fund and the Development Fund, which are supported by the European Social Fund.
Union Learning Representatives provide learning support in their workplaces to many of the 644,000 trade unionists in Scotland who are affiliated to the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC).
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