Nisus Scotland Newsletter

Nisus Scotland is keen to find out your opinion about the need for core Information Technology skills for staff and volunteers within the Third and Voluntary Sectors in Scotland.

The need for further IT skills has been linked to current skill gaps and shortages within these sectors.

In recent research 21% of Scottish Voluntary Organisations stated they had difficulties filling jobs because applicants lacked basic computer literacy and IT skills¹.

The lack of IT proficiency was also rated as a skill gap in over 50% of administrative staff and in 60% of professional and supervisory staff within the sector¹.

Core skills however, are skills that make a person more effective in any job, and as an individual in wider society. The Scottish Executive believes that these include the use of IT².

If you would like to express your opinion on what actually constitutes core IT skills for you and your colleagues, please contact us for a survey form (Tel: 0131 554 5656 - Email: info@nisusscotland.org.uk).

The results of our survey will be used not only to improve the training services we can offer you, but also to inform policy groups and funders that work within the Scottish Third and Voluntary Sectors of the skills you want and need!

To encourage response to our survey, every organisation that returns a survey will be entered into our December prize draw and stands to win £250 of free IT training at Nisus. What’s more, whoever personally fills out a survey could win a luxury festive hamper just in time for the festive season!

¹Voluntary Sector, Labour Market Information Research Reference Report 2004
² Opportunity Scotland: A Paper on Lifelong Learning 1998, & Response 2001, Scottish Office