Land Based Industries - Future Skills Survey

Land use is changing and in order to provide relevant courses for Scottish Borders residents Borders College are asking you to complete this short survey on future skills requirements for land-based industries.
Your help will allow Borders College to design and programme future courses and adapt current courses to reflect local requirements. The survey includes questions on traditional agricultural courses right up to renewable energy generation to better understand: the skills employers need so courses can be aligned to support this, provide accessible education and skills to sustain rural industries, upskill and reskill the current work force and attract new entrants to the sector, build a secure pipeline of staff with appropriate future skills and to capture information on future land use.
The questions are divided into 3 areas; Information about you, training needs and future skills requirements. Not all questions will be relevant to you so please just answer those that are. The survey will take just 4 minutes to complete. Thank you for participating in this survey, we really appreciate your views.
As a small thank you for participating in the survey we are offering 4 tickets to this year’s Border Union Show. The winner will be picked at random from those leaving their email address at the end of the survey. The winner will be notified 2nd May 2022
Survey closes 30th April 2022
This project is funded by the UK Government through the UK Community Renewal Fund. The UK Community Renewal Fund is a UK Government programme for 2021/22. This aims to support people and communities most in need across the UK to pilot programmes and new approaches to prepare for the UK Shared Prosperity Fund. It invests in skills, community and place, local business, and supporting people into employment.  For more information, visit  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-commjnity-renewal-fund-prospectus

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* Section 1: Please provide information about yourself
Where are you based?

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* Please select which best describes your current status from the list below:

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* What are your main areas of interest or business type? Please select all that apply

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* Section 2: Training
Are you or your employees, interested in any of the  full-time training opportunities and apprenticeships listed below?  Please select all that apply:

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* Are you or your employees, interested in any of the part time training/skills/information sessions and apprenticeships listed below? Please select all that apply:

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* What are the barriers to accessing the types of training you or your employees are interested in? Please select all that apply:

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* How would you like to access the training you are interested in?

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* Section 3: Land based Future Skills and Industries
Are you interested in any of the following subjects? Please select all that apply:

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* We are seeking to develop a new model of Natural Capital collaboration with rural farmers and landowners that integrates its successful land services engagement model with complimentary sustainable development, upskilling and advice in key productivity and commercialisation capability enhancing areas. Are you able to self-fund training for the subjects you have highlighted in the previous question?

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* If you would like to be kept informed of future training opportunities or be entered into our prize draw to win 4 tickets to this year’s Border Union Show please include your email address below.

Please be assured that your email address will be kept securely within Borders College and will only be used to send updates and information on courses.  We will not pass on or sell your information to external parties and you can unsubscribe at any time

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