{"id":54294,"date":"2015-02-25T10:15:02","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T10:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=5aa1da5b3ab867ac17cfd09390d76844"},"modified":"2015-02-25T10:15:02","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T10:15:02","slug":"news-story-migration-advisory-committee-mac-partial-review-of-the-shortage-occupation-lists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=54294","title":{"rendered":"News story: Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) partial review of the shortage occupation lists"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>On 22 September 2014, the government requested the MAC to carry out a partial review of the shortage occupation lists for the UK and Scotland. <\/p>\n<p>The commission said: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Following the MAC\u2019s comprehensive review of the SOL, published in February 2013, the Government has been made aware of a small number of occupations where there may be a case for inclusion on or removal from the SOL.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>These occupations are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>graduate occupations within the health sector including consultant roles, nurses and training grades<\/li>\n<li>graduate occupations in the digital technology sector<\/li>\n<li>linesworkers in the energy industry<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The MAC\u2019s findings and recommendations can be found in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/partial-review-of-the-shortage-occupation-lists\">full report<\/a> and <span class=\"attachment inline\" id=\"attachment_928340\"><br \/>\n  <a href=\"\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/406772\/MAC_shortage_2014_press_release.pdf\">press release<\/a><br \/>\n  (<span class=\"type\"><abbr title=\"Portable Document Format\">PDF<\/abbr><\/span>, <span class=\"file-size\">64.6KB<\/span>, <span class=\"page-length\">3 pages<\/span>)<br \/>\n<\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MAC has published a report on a partial review of the shortage occupation lists for the UK and for Scotland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}