Stop crossing wires in skills gap debate

Posted on 13 Jan 2011 by The Manufacturer

Manufacturing commentators must try harder to decipher the UK’s real skills needs, and not compare apples with pears.

Everyone is acknowledging the UK’s growing skills gap. We are not educating the population with the appropriate skills needed for growth areas like low carbon applications (that’s both ‘dark green’ and ‘light green’ skills), advanced manufacturing, biosciences and digital technologies – most of which should have strong manufacturing opportunities. But it has baffled me that…

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