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“The Skills Matching Service gave me the exact person I was looking for, which has been a huge help in these difficult times.”

We’re delighted to have as our blogger this week, Elise Cox, a student with Inverness College UHI who writes about her experiences of tackling invasive...

An animal care centre has found a new member of staff during the COVID-19 pandemic, thanks to our new skills matching service.

A new report published by Lantra Scotland addresses challenges for the land and sea industries which were identified at skills summits in December and January...

Last week, the children and I sat down together to watch the First Minister’s unveiling of the four-phase "route map", aimed at restarting society while...

Although balancing home-schooling and work continues to be a challenge, it has been rather nice to return to my roots, teaching the kids some botany...

Before I begin to write about migrants, I think it only fair to declare a bias: meeting a migrant worker changed my life. At the...

There are certain elements of lockdown that haven’t actually changed my day- to-day life very much. With two young kids, we rarely go out, even...

Okay, so one swallow doesn’t make a summer, but nevertheless when I saw the swallows and house martins swooping around the farm buildings today, it...

In this summary of our annual report, we look back on a busy and productive year working for the benefit of skills development in Scotland’s land-based and aquaculture industries.