Regional and National Priorities Sample Clauses

Regional and National Priorities. In October 2017 Edinburgh College’s Senior Management group outlined an ambitious Strategic Plan, building on the College’s Business Transformation Plan. The Curriculum Strategy, as outlined above, reflects regional and national skills priorities: Growth areas Scottish area of comparative advantage: Creative Industries Creative Industries (including Digital) Energy – Oil and Gas, Renewable Technology Energy (including renewables) Life Sciences, Chemical Sciences Life Sciences Financial Services Financial and Business Services Tourism Sustainable Tourism Food and Drink Industry Food and Drink (including agriculture and fisheries) ICT and Digital Technologies Data Driven Innovation Skills Engineering Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Construction Construction Skills for Housebuilding, to support off-site and on-site multi-skilled services 52 Edinburgh College All projects relating to financial sustainability are led by the chief operating officer who is fully compliant with the Scottish Public Finance Manual. All transformation projects relating to workforce development have offered voluntary severance which is compliant with the Scottish Public Finance Manual and the SFC’s guidance on Voluntary Severance Scheme. The commercial development structure has been reviewed with regards to capacity and capability to increase revenue from these income streams. The vision is to ensure strategic growth over a five-year period through new planned commercial activity and growth. The aim will be to engage all faculties and have a combined, consistent delivery approach with SMART targets. The strategies will outline short, medium and longer-term objectives and areas for development. As these strategies have still to be implemented it is expected that commercial and international income will remain the same for 2018/19.
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Regional and National Priorities. In January 2016 Edinburgh College’s Senior Management Group outlined an ambitious Business Transformation Plan, building on the college’s 2014/15 Development Plan, it contains 16 key actions to transform the college: Transformation Plan actions (and their relation to the Transformation Plan) • Develop a more robust and effective approach to quality assurance and improvement that ensures student retention, high satisfaction rates and high success rates (Programme 4, Project 4.3 Quality Improvement); • Review staffing levels and the shape of our workforce to ensure it is both sustainable and appropriate to our curriculum and commercial offer (Programme 3, Projects 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4 Workforce Development); • Accelerate the review and proposals for our estate so that we have the right size and type of campuses and infrastructure to meet the needs of our students and our business model (Programme 1, Project 1.2 Estates Development with interdependency with Project 2.1 Curriculum Planning); • Rapidly develop our Blended Learning Strategy further to offer new ways of learning which build on latest IT and communication methods to enable students to learn more flexibly. This will include an innovative project to establish a future- facing virtual learning environment which will sit alongside our physical estate (Programme 2, Project 2.3 LTAS); • Match the curriculum much more closely to both student demand and regional employment demand by modernising courses, reducing the range which spreads our offer too thinly and ensure that class sizes are viable. This will include shaping our curriculum to maintain levels of provision in some areas where they match the regional need, growing areas where there is unmet demand and reducing areas of low uptake or few job prospects (Programme 2, Project
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