Policy Review Section
包含两篇文章：一篇分析苏格兰地方政府如何应对经济发展和职业培训改革，另一篇评估大型就业培训项目Drumchapel Opportunities的影响。
In this Policy Review Section, John Fairley of the Scottish Local Authorities Management Centre, University of Strathclyde, considers how local authorities in Scotland are responding to the reform of economic development, and vocational education and training. These changes involve the establishment of twenty-two private sector controlled Local Enterprise Companies (LECs) which have taken over the majority of the functions of the former Scottish Development Agency, and Highlands and Islands Development Board, as well as the training programmes of the Department of Employment. Despite the tensions inherent in the new structure, Fairley argues that local government has generally adopted a pragmatic stance seeking to maintain wherever possible the consensual partnership approach to economic development which has historically prevailed in Scotland. In the second article, Ivan Turok of the Centre for Planning, University of Strathclyde, evaluates the impact of an innovative and large scale employment and training project, Drumchapel Opportunities. The scheme has generated considerable interest amongst local authorities seeking to establish similar integrated initiatives on deprived council housing estates. More broadly it can be seen as representing a challenge to the trend amongst Training and Enterprise Councils, and LECs in the case of Scotland, of shifting public resources away from the unemployed towards those in employment.