Sir Mike Rake, Chairman, UK Commission for Employment & Skills“The Doomsday scenario is we could find ourselves by 2020 with six million people unemployable in the UK. I don’t have to tell you what the social and economic implications would be.”
The government has admitted its concern that too few employers will make use of the £1bn Train to Gain scheme. To mark the anniversary of its launch, skills secretary John Denham announced a budget increase from £200m in the first year to nearly £1bn b
Skills minister David Lammy has insisted the UK skills drive is progressing well, despite only 50 companies having signed the Leitch pledge to train all staff to Level 2 since its launch in June.
Poor literacy or numeracy is a problem for a tenth of the UK population. What steps are government agencies and individual organisations taking to solve the basic skills conundrum?
A £5bn scheme to boost the literacy and maths skills of 2.25m adults in England by 2010 is on target, a watchdog says.
With an economy in its 17th year of uninterrupted growth, Australia's skills shortage has never been worse.
Companies in County Durham have contributed to the North East spending more than £2 billion on training, up 44% from 2005, the highest percentage increase in England, according to findings from the National Employer Skills Survey 2007 (NESS07), released
The National Employer Skills Survey 2007 has found that almost 163,000 managers in England alone experience a skills gap. Of these, nearly three quarters lack management skills, and the Learning Skills Council is urging managers across the country to take
A local authority has slashed its sick leave by one-third in little over a year with the introduction of manager training and an occupational health (OH) system.
Bosses in all sectors will soon need a good business reason for refusing staff requests for training.
Chris Humphries and his new commission aim to simplify the sector skills councils for employers.
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