Sector Qualifications Strategy (SQS)

The SQS vision is to:

...deliver a genuinely consumer-led qualifications system which delivers what it sets out to do, providing the Creative and Cultural industries with the people and skills required to be successful in a global market, securing world-beating creative enterprise and more diverse cultural industries.

The Sector Qualification Strategy (SQS) will outline the current and future learning and qualifications needs of employers in the creative and cultural sectors. It will be used to shape and influence qualifications education/training at all levels, including higher level and foundation degrees.

Drawing upon the Creative Blueprint and other market intelligence, Creative & Cultural Skills is analysing the current provision and will agree interventions with our key partners to improve the match between education/training supply and employment need.

All Sector Skills Councils are taking part in a phased SQS programme. Creative & Cultural Skills is in Phase 3 of this programme. The project began in August, 2007 and will finish in July, 2008.

The SQS is an integral part of the Sector Qualification Reform Programme, together with the Creative Blueprint (our Sector Skills Agreement) and National Occupational Standards.

To find out more about the SQS, to read the draft document and to take part in the SQS consultation please visit our microsite at www.ccskills-nos.org.uk