Green jobs

Ivan McKee: Scotland needs more skilled workers - and here's how we can get them

One of the key challenges facing businesses, and constraining economic growth, is skills shortages. This extends across all sectors and levels. In the tourism and hospitality sector with rural, and urban, premises having to limit opening hours due to lack of chefs and front of house staff, or life science businesses struggling to find the PhD and lab skills to develop and manufacture world leading drugs and vaccines.