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Recognising changing local labour market demands, and
our responsibility as a civic anchor, the College will assess
and act to tackle the following challenges:
• Mitigating community disadvantage and deepening
inequality
• Addressing student poverty and digital disadvantage,
with an immediate focus upon young people, the care
experienced, lone parents, those with learning
difficulties, and others at risk
• Setting the College's positioning and gearing to support
those from the lowest socio-economic backgrounds
• Respond to renewed demand for social capital via
colleges
• Regional economic trends, informed by the improved
intelligence emerging from the SFC/SDS Skills
Alignment agenda
• Demonstrating public and economic value
These undertakings will prioritise individual well-being and
mental health care.
SOCIAL
There is a key role for learning and innovation to support the
exponential growth of technology, and economic revival.
City of Glasgow College is a certified STEM-assured hub,
and as such will continue to collaborate in the development
of emerging technologies as a catalyst to re-shape the
educational, social and industrial environment for the
future.
Key strategic developments will include:
• Digital Transformation - accelerated development to
build and promote the highest quality online offer to
support domestic and international development
• Enhanced high quality connectivity
• Virtual and augmented reality to enhance simulated work
environments
• Development of digital skills e.g. cyber security/
resilience, data analytics/ethics, software engineering,
via the Digital Start Fund, Digital Growth Fund, and other
collaborative initiatives
• Finance technology development (FinTech)
• Using data to improve learning outcomes
The College will further demonstrate its world leading
status as a centre of innovation.
TECHNOLOGICAL
The College has a long and significant record of enhancing
social cohesion by addressing individual and community
disadvantage, which is wide-ranging and embedded in many
communities of interest and locality. There is a further risk
of fractured social cohesion as a consequence of the Covid
pandemic and subsequent economic downturn. The College
therefore commits to:
• A re-evaluation of social and health care support
• Supporting a resurgence in community development
concepts
• Building College capacity, to deliver social and economic
resilience in communities
• Enhancing individuals' contribution to society and
community
• Building equality through employability
• Supporting City Deal.
Consistent with our focus on measuring impact, we are
currently working with the Institute of Public Policy in
Scotland on an analysis of the College's contribution to
the wider suite of Scottish Government National Priorities,
beyond the economic contribution considered by Fraser of
Allander; (Autumn 2021).
SOCIETAL IMPACT