Scottish Traditional Building Skills Audit Scoping ... - Historic Scotland

In partnership with Construction Skills Scotland, Scottish Qualifications Authority
and Scottish Enterprise, Historic Scotland has initiated the Scottish Traditional
Building Skills Audit Scoping Exercise (STBSASE). The project aims to quantify
training that is currently available for traditional building skills and to identify gaps
in current qualification provision. From this, a work programme of qualification
development will be developed focusing on bolt-on units to supplement the
existing Scottish Vocational Qualification provision. This is the first action in the
Strategic Partnership Agreement between Historic Scotland, ConstructionSkills and
the Scottish Qualifications Authority in identifying and addressing skills and
knowledge gaps in traditional building skills and will build on the successful
introduction in 2008 of the National Progression Award in Masonry Conservation.
This project is part of the Traditional Building Skills Strategy for Technical
Conservation Group.
Project Outline
Aim
The aim of the overall Scottish Traditional Building Skills Audit project is to:
1. Gather quantitative data on the delivery of traditional building skills
qualifications in Scotland
2. Identify where the gaps lie in current training provision in Scotland for
traditional building skills
3. Identify the next steps, including potential for focused working groups for key
trade areas to progress the identified “next steps”
This report (which results from the initial Scoping Exercise), forms the first and
second stages only of the overall Audit.
Scottish Traditional Building Skills Audit Scoping Exercise
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