Across the range of skills that are necessary to drive the country’s development it has become apparent that the scarcity that we continue to experience in critical areas could have a serious negative impact in the period ahead. Skills scarcity has become even more of a national talking point with the advent of oil as an emerging industry. Setting aside the scarcity of conventional administrative and specialist skills demanded by both the public and private sectors, including those associated with the quality of service delivery, oil & gas is likely to bring its own particular skills challenges which, up until recently, had not been taken account of in the national training curriculum.
