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19. a local economy level, research conducted in 2013 by the North Ayrshire CPP concluded
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that specific growth in employment is predicted in the engineering, social care, hospitality and
tourism, and construction sectors. Alignment of the curriculum, reflecting both regional and local
requirements to prepare young people for employment in these sectors, will ensure that College
provision matches labour market demand.
Skills and qualifications
20. he Annual Population Survey (Jan-Dec 2012) showed that more school leavers are entering Further
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and Higher Education since the start of the recession both in Ayrshire and Scotland, fewer school
leavers are going directly into unemployment, and there are fewer young people aged 16-24 in
Ayrshire with higher level qualifications relative to Scotland.
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There is also a higher percentage of the working-age population with no qualifications and a lower
percentage educated to degree level and above. Results from Census 2011 in Table 2 demonstrate
that East and North Ayrshire each have considerable challenges in relation to the high percentage
of the population with no qualifications and lower than Scotland average percentage of the
population whose highest qualification is degree level and above.
Table 2 Census 2011, Highest qualification attained
Campus
EA
NA
SA
Scotland
Percentage with no qualification
34.1
31.3
28.5
26.8
Percentage with highest qualification attained – Level 1
24.4
24.2
22.1
23.1
Percentage with highest qualification attained – Level 2
13.6
13.4
14.0
14.3
Percentage with highest qualification attained – Level 3
10.0
11.4
10.3
9.7
Percentage with highest qualification attained – Level 4 & above
17.9
19.6
25.1
26.1
Note: Highest level of qualification is defined as:
Level 1: O Grade, Standard Grade, Access 3 Cluster, Intermediate 1 or 2; SVQ level 1 or 2, SCOTVEC Module, City and Guilds
Craft or equivalent
Level 2: Higher, Advanced Higher, CSYS; SVQ level 3, ONC, OND, SCOTVEC National Diploma, City and Guilds Advanced
Craft or equivalent
Level 3: HNC, HND, SVQ level 4 or equivalent; other post-school but pre-Higher Education qualifications not already mentioned
Level 4 and above: Degree, Postgraduate qualifications, Masters, PhD, SVQ level 5 or equivalent; Professional qualifications
22. each of the CPPs, there are many similarities in what FE and HE qualifications school leavers
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choose to study. The top five subject choices across Ayrshire are Engineering; Science and Maths;
Arts and Social Sciences; Social, Caring and Advisory; and Construction.
Ayrshire College Outcome Agreement 2014-17