The students on the PGD course at Strathclyde University work with LMI as part of the Employment and Training module.
The use of LMI within the taught element focuses on issues of LMI that relate to economic development, largely within the Scottish context. Also as part of this module the students complete an assignment which like Paisley requires them to investigate a particular sector. This requires them to visit three employers, a college or training provider and to carry out a job study of a sector specific occupation. It would be fair to say that teaching in this area has now been made easier by systematically collated information that is available through Future Skills Scotland and now through the NGRF! How much use practitioners make of the information is available to them is hard to estimate. It appears much depends on the interest of the individual practitioner rather than the demands of the organisation.