What we will focus on to achieve this ambition

• Aiming to keep the Council in the top 25% for school examination results.

• Asking employers about the skills they need from workers.

• Improving work-based skills of 16- to 19-year-olds.

• Keeping up to date on future demands for technical skills.

• Trying to maintain and improve intellectual and cultural life in Bath and North East Somerset.

• Supporting proposals to improve the learning environment, including schemes such as Building Schools for the Future, a national scheme to modernise schools.

• Increasing community-based learning opportunities, increasing the demand for learning, and meeting the needs of hard-to-reach learners.

• Continuing to explore new opportunities for adult learners and for raising achievement in basic skills.

•  Identifying training opportunities for members of the community who are less likely to get involved in training (including ex-offenders and people with drug and alcohol problems).

• Developing new approaches to working together.

• Developing our network of local libraries to promote lifelong learning and access to a wide range of services.

• Supporting work that helps vulnerable young people who have been excluded from school, or who are at risk of being excluded, stay in education, training and employment.
  

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