Meeting of the Parliament 24 June 2026 [Draft]
We want to support all our young people to choose a pathway that suits their strengths and enables them to fulfil their potential to the greatest extent, developing their skills and critical thinking.
Our all-age careers support, delivered by Skills Development Scotland and other partners, promotes every pathway to our young people. We are investing £198 million a year in around 25,500 new modern apprenticeships, 5,000 foundation apprenticeships and more than 1,500 new graduate apprenticeships. We are committed to increasing apprenticeship opportunities to 150,000 over the course of this session of the Parliament, supporting our economy and our society.
Universities are autonomous organisations. They choose which degrees they offer. It would be helpful to understand from the member’s supplementary question what he means by degrees that “offer limited value”, so that we can understand the point that he is trying to make.