Friday 25 September 2009

UKCES Skills analysis

Published this week is an analysis of how the UK compares to the OECD international community on skills.

The bottom line is that at lower and intermediate levels, the UK has a big problem and its getting worse as the rest of the world improves their skills at a faster rate that the UK does.

Even worse, fixing this takes a long time, it can't be fixed solely at school or college, in 10 years time, 80% of the workforce are already in employment now!

I don't have any magic bullets, but it is a problem that we all can help in fixing by up skilling everyone. To get into the top 10 of countries, 50% of today's will have to gain a higher level qualification in the next 10 years - that's a lot!

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