Flexible Skills Programme | Business Wales
The sector has introduced a new pilot within the programme to support AI training to help Welsh businesses in any sector gain a better understanding of AI and build expertise in areas like use cases, machine learning, data science, and AI ethics.
Key points
- This programme is designed to provide funding support to Wales-based businesses that wish to upskill their workforce in advanced digital and artificial intelligence (AI) skills.
- The development on the record is the Flexible Skills Programme, reported by Welsh AI skills and jobs search.
What's happening
Funding is available to support employees of Wales-based businesses to attend training courses that are highly digital, technical, or AI-focused.
On the detail released so far, Welsh AI skills and jobs search is the only publisher on the record, the scope is described as Wales wide.
No funding figure, timescale or headcount has been published alongside the announcement, so the scale of the work cannot yet be measured from the reporting itself.
The account is carried by Welsh AI skills and jobs search, which has not named the delivery partners, suppliers or funders involved.
In their words
“The Flexible Skills Programme (FSP) is a Welsh Government funded initiative that supports businesses across Wales to invest in themselves and build a stronger, more skilled workforce.”
Why it matters in Wales
For Wales the substance of the Flexible Skills Programme sits in training and progression, where training in Wales fills easily at entry level, so the real measure is how many learners reach paid advanced data and machine learning work afterwards.
No figure has been disclosed alongside the Flexible Skills Programme, so the measure that counts in Wales is recorded activity: training and progression showing up in hiring, contracts or published outcomes rather than in further announcements.
On skills the constraint in Wales is rarely appetite but progression. Introductory sessions fill, while advanced data and machine learning roles stay hard to fill, which is the standard the Flexible Skills Programme has to be measured against.
What we're watching
- •Delivery updates published by Flexible Skills Programme on the work described.
- •What Business Wales The confirms about its own role and contribution.
- •Published terms, eligibility and reported results for the Flexible Skills Programme.
- •Measured training and progression outcomes reported in Wales.
- •Follow up reporting from Welsh AI skills and jobs search that adds figures, named partners or dates.
Original source: Welsh AI skills and jobs search