Common use of Maritime Clause in Contracts

Maritime. North East Scotland College is the main UK provider of fishing related qualifications and as such has strong links with the industry locally through representative organisations such as Scottish Fishermen’s Federation, Seafish Industry Authority and the Maritime Coastguard Agency. This provision is offered at the College’s Scottish Maritime Academy in Peterhead which is seen as one of Scotland's premier maritime education and training providers. The low oil price continues to impact the demand for merchant navy training, however to some extent fishermen’s training is bucking the trend as former fishermen from oil & gas industry return to commercial fishing boats. The Scottish Maritime Academy works closely with key local stakeholders including Peterhead Port Authority, ASCO (logistics) and Vroon Offshore and has developed a series of bespoke training programmes tailored to meet specific skills shortages. During the planning period, it is thought that the College’s commercial (i.e. non-government-funded) activity will be particularly important in meeting the needs of employers as the limitations and constraints of funding rules do not apply. The College will also explore further opportunities to develop partnerships combining traditional education with work-based training, for example, through developments in the senior phase of Curriculum for Excellence or technical and professional apprenticeships. The recommendations of the Commission for Developing Scotland’s Young Workforce provide an important context within which to discuss these matters with employers. The College will also continue to help employers address areas of identified skills shortages by ensuring that training offered meets industry requirements, and by promoting, in partnership with employers, progression and career opportunities in these areas. The College is represented in various skills forums chaired by AGCC e.g. food and drink, travel and tourism, and as such will continue to refresh and develop the curriculum to meet the skills needs of the region’s key sectors in addition to oil and gas. Beyond 2017 the College will seek to benefit from the next tranche of European Structural Fund monies and a national project targeted at “Developing Scotland’s Workforce”. The specific use of this money will be determined by regional need and the delivery will be the outcome of on-going community planning. The College ensures that strategic developments and planning processes are informed by relevant national and local information sources, including National Skills Investment Plans, Regional Skills Assessments, the Skills Strategy and Action Plan for Aberdeen City and Shire, and up-to-date labour market information, effective engagement with the two local Community Planning Partnerships, and engagement with local and regional economic fora. The College continues to liaise with SDS and other appropriate partners to ensure that its Outcome Agreement is informed by the most up-to-date evidence base. The College is a key partner on the Regional Economic Strategy Group, a group whose membership also represents Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire Councils, SDS, Aberdeen and Grampian Chamber of Commerce, Nestrans, ONE and Scottish Enterprise. The Group is also responsible for the development of a Regional Skills Strategy (RSS) which, at the time of writing, is being reviewed and revised. It is likely that the new RSS will contain an actions plan that will seek to address key regional themes including responding to the oil and gas downturn; supporting economic transition; the repositioning of the skills system and school to work transitions. The College will participate in the delivery of the Strategy as appropriate. The Vice Principal Business Services has overall responsibility for engaging with both Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire Community Planning Partnerships (CPPs). As a statutory partner the College will be, in the forthcoming year, represented on the Board, Management Executive and various thematic groups within the structures of the respective CPPs. For the past year the College’s Vice Principal has been a member of Community Planning Aberdeen Management Group and has helped, with other partner’s representatives, shape the draft Local Outcome Improvement (LOIP) and Locality Plans for Aberdeen City. The Community Planning Aberdeen LOIP focuses on 4 key themes: • Prosperous Economy - Ensuring that Aberdeen has a flourishing, thriving and successful local economy • Prosperous People – Ensuring that people in Aberdeen are happy and healthy and enjoy positive life outcomes. • Prosperous Place - Ensuring people experience Aberdeen as the best place to invest, live and visit • Enabling Technology – Enabling innovative, integrated and transformed public services. Whilst the College is involved to varying degrees with all of these themes it is a lead partner for the first, Prosperous Economy. Within this, the College will play a lead role in ensuring that key impacts are realised along the lines of four primary drivers identified, namely ensuring that there is:

Maritime. North East Scotland College is the main only mainland UK provider of fishing related qualifications and as such has strong links with the industry locally through representative organisations such as Scottish Fishermen’s Federation, Seafish Industry Authority The White Fish and Pelagic Associations and the Maritime Coastguard AgencyIndustry. This provision is offered at the College’s Scottish Maritime Academy in Peterhead which is seen as one of Scotland's premier maritime education and training providers. The low It should be noted that effects of the current downturn in the oil price continues to impact and gas are being experienced by the maritime sector e.g. demand for merchant navy training, however fishermen is decreasing as some who left the industry to some extent fishermen’s training is bucking the trend as former fishermen from go into oil & and gas industry return to commercial fishing boats. The Scottish Maritime Academy works closely with key local stakeholders including Peterhead Port Authority, ASCO (logistics) and Vroon Offshore and has developed a series of bespoke training programmes tailored to meet specific skills shortagesare now returning. During the planning period, it is thought that the College’s commercial (i.e. non-government-funded) activity will be particularly important in meeting the needs of employers as the limitations and constraints of funding rules do not apply. The College will also explore further opportunities to develop partnerships combining traditional education with work-based training, for example, through developments in the senior phase of Curriculum for Excellence or technical and professional apprenticeships. The recommendations of the Commission for Developing Scotland’s Young Workforce provide an important context within which to discuss these matters with employers. The College will also continue to help employers address areas of identified skills shortages by ensuring that training offered meets industry requirements, and by promoting, in partnership with employers, progression and career opportunities in these areas. The College is represented in various skills forums chaired by AGCC e.g. food and drink, travel and tourism, and as such will continue to refresh and develop the curriculum to meet the skills needs of the region’s key sectors in addition to oil and gas. Beyond 2017 the College will seek to benefit from the next tranche of European Structural Fund monies and a national project targeted at “Developing Scotland’s Workforce”. The specific use of this money will be determined by regional need and the delivery will be the outcome of on-going community planning. The College ensures that strategic developments and planning processes are informed by relevant national and local information sources, including National Skills Investment Plans, Regional Skills Assessments, the Skills Strategy and Action Plan for Aberdeen City and Shire, and up-to-date labour market information, effective engagement with the two local Community Planning Partnerships, and engagement with local and regional economic fora. The College continues to liaise with SDS and other appropriate partners to ensure that its Outcome Agreement is informed by the most up-up- to-date evidence base. The College is a key partner on the Regional Economic Strategy Group, a group whose membership also represents Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire Councils, SDS, Aberdeen and Grampian Chamber of Commerce, Nestrans, ONE and Scottish Enterprise. The Group is also responsible for the development of a Regional Skills Strategy (RSS) which, at the time of writing, is being reviewed and revised. It is likely that the new RSS will contain an actions plan that will seek to address key regional themes including responding to the oil and gas downturn; supporting economic transition; the repositioning of the skills system and school to work transitions. The College will participate in the delivery of the Strategy as appropriate. The Vice Principal Business Services has overall responsibility for engaging with both Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire Community Planning Partnerships (CPPs). As a statutory partner the College will be, in the forthcoming year, represented on the Board, Management Executive and various thematic groups within the structures of the respective CPPs. For the past year the College’s The Vice Principal has been is a member of Community Planning Aberdeen Management Group Group, representing both the College and has helped, with other partner’s representatives, shape the draft Local Outcome Improvement (LOIP) and Locality Plans for Aberdeen Citytwo local Universities. The There are also a number of Community Planning Aberdeen LOIP focuses on 4 key themessub-groups, for which the Vice Principal ensures there is appropriate College involvement. Key College staff also participate in a range of Aberdeenshire CPP working groups. The following tables highlight possible areas of collaboration between the College and the two local CPPs in relation to the achievement of targets in the CPP Outcome Agreements: Local Outcome (Long-term): Aberdeenshire will be recognised as a great place to live, work, invest with opportunity for all Medium Term Outcomes: • Prosperous Economy - Ensuring Energetica will increase its contribution to the performance of the Scottish Energy sector • Communities and businesses benefit from a more co-ordinated partnership tourism campaign. Local Outcome (Long-term): The unemployment rate in identified areas of deprivation in Aberdeenshire will be less than the national average Medium Term Outcomes • Improved employer engagement that Aberdeen has a flourishing, thriving ensures employer’ needs are met • Improved skills of the workforce through sector-based academies (this outcome specifically references ▇▇▇▇). Thematic priority: Learning and successful local economy workforce Outcomes: • Prosperous People – Ensuring that people Reduced levels of unemployment • Universal literacy • Employees in Aberdeen are happy receive a “living wage” • Effective lifelong learning through vocational and healthy and enjoy positive life outcomesacademic education training from secondary school. Thematic priority: Economic growth Outcome: • Prosperous Place - Ensuring people experience Aberdeen The city is recognised as the best a good place to invest, live live, work, study, visit and visit export from. Multi-lateral priority: City of Culture Outcome: • Enabling Technology – Enabling innovative, integrated and transformed public services. Whilst Aberdeen delivers a year of culture in 2017 which can be seen to impact every aspect of the College is involved to varying degrees with all of these themes it is a lead partner for the first, Prosperous Economy. Within this, the College will play a lead role in ensuring that key impacts are realised along the lines of four primary drivers identified, namely ensuring that there is:2022 vision.