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1. Introduction
1.1 The Review of Scotland's Colleges ( RoSCo) represented the most fundamental and wide ranging review of the college sector in Scotland since incorporation in 1993. Its purpose was to provide Scottish Ministers with a robust evidence base and, where appropriate, informed recommendations for change, upon which sound decisions could be taken on how to fund and equip Scotland's colleges to meet future challenges and demands.
1.2 The review covered four workstreams:
- the contribution which the sector makes to learners and to Scotland's economy and wider society;
- accountability and governance;
- staffing, learners and learning environments; and
- colleges' strategic future over the next 10-15 years.
1.3 The remit of the last of these four workstreams was to consider the colleges' strategic future over the next 10-15 years, taking account of changing demographics and expectations.
1.4 A working group representing a wide range of stakeholders led the futures work. Within this working group, a steering group had responsibility for the development and consideration of scenarios facilitated by an independent consultant. A small scenario development team contributed to drafting of the detailed narratives for each of the four scenarios. Members of the core group, working group and scenario development team are listed in Annex A.
1.5 The Leitch Review, Prosperity for All in the Global Economy - World Class Skills, was published as we started to draft this report. The Scottish Executive will be responding to this report separately, so we have not referred explicitly to its recommendations here.
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