Skills strategy: Rigour or rigor mortis?

Posted on 3 Apr 2013 by Tim Brown

Following last year’s Richard Review of apprenticeships, the Holt Review, Employer Ownership of Skills Pilot, and the Heseltine report on growth, the Government has revealed its latest set of plans to assist business and employment – changes to the skills strategy and UK education system.

After seemingly ignoring the needs of industry when it decided to downgrade the value of the Engineering Diploma from five GCSEs to one, the Government now says it wants to engage with business and get them more involved in college curricula. The Government’s new skills strategy, Rigour and Responsiveness in Skills, sets out a £214m…

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