Digital Skills

Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:18 pm on 7 December 2021.

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Photo of Mark Drakeford Mark Drakeford Labour 2:18, 7 December 2021

If I was to take just one example, Llywydd, of the point that the Member was making about sharing good practice and making sure that good things that are happening in one part of Wales are known about and can be developed elsewhere, then maybe, for this afternoon, I will just point to the degree apprenticeship programme. These are degree level apprenticeships, many of them in the digital skills area. Up until about a year or so ago, we had no degree apprenticeships on the island of Ynys Môn, now we do. That's very good news and it's great to see those young people coming forward to take advantage of those opportunities. I think one of the reasons that that will have happened is because the success of the degree apprenticeship programme in some other parts of Wales, some early movers, has now been communicated across the network of FE colleges—and the Member has an excellent example in Llandrillo of a forward-looking FE college—and that good practice in some parts of Wales is now being spread through that network, and I hope is resulting in those additional opportunities for young people, and not just young people, people of all of ages—