Sector Skills Agreement for Northern Ireland
The Northern Ireland Assembly Government has placed the skills agenda at the heart of its programme for economic growth as part of its skills and employment strategy, Success Through Skills.
This document positions Sector Skills Councils as a vital component in understanding the demand for skills and improving the quality and relevance of education and training.
Skillset will therefore continue to play a central role in the future development of the creative media industries in Northern Ireland.
To this end, our Sector Skills Agreement for Northern Ireland (SSA) is a strategic action plan based on an extensive programme of research into the current and future skills the creative media industries need. You can download it here:
Sector Skills Agreement for Northern Ireland
Sector Skills Agreements are designed to ensure that the skills employers and learners need in order to succeed are the ones the education and learning system provides. This document revises and updates our previous SSA and reflects the considerable progress that has been made since then.
As well as a current analysis of the skills situation for each sector, this SSA update takes into account the latest economic and policy situation and the changes and challenges against which the SSA must be delivered.
It sets out a new and demanding vision and agenda for action in this context and sets out key challenges and solutions for Government and stakeholders.
The SSA is both a statement of industry need and a reconfirmation of industry commitment and investment. Critically, it is a tool for harnessing and declaring partner commitment to our mission.
We want to build on what we have already achieved together and develop measurable, joined-up declarations of action, with well-defined outcomes, against which we can all be held to account.
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