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  • Skills Strategy for Northern Ireland

    Topics:
    • Employment and skills programmes (including apprenticeships), 
    • Skills strategies

    ‘Skills for a 10x Economy’ sets a strategic framework for the development of our skills system to 2030.

    The strategy has been developed over several years and is based on a substantial programme of research and engagement to deliver an evidence-based, stakeholder-informed strategy:

    • Skills for a 10x economy - Skills Strategy for Northern Ireland

    The strategy is based on a major piece of research by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), published in July 2020:

    • OECD Skills Strategy Northern Ireland

    The new strategy, Skills for a 10x Economy, supersedes the 2011 Skills Strategy, ‘Success Through Skills – Transforming Futures”:

    • Success through Skills Transforming Futures

    An evaluation of this was carried out in 2020, as part of the development of the new Skills for a 10x Economy strategy:

    • Evaluation of Success through Skills - Transforming Futures

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    • Apprenticeship Inclusion Challenge Fund
    • Green Skills Action Plan
    • Northern Ireland Skills Council
    • Pathways to Success
    • Qualifications in Northern Ireland
    • Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM)
    • Skills for Life and Work - training providers by council area
    • Step Up
    • Work Quality Indicators
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