skills

Cheat sheet - Leitch Skills Review (2006)

As ever, I'd suggest reading the entire executive summary of the skills review, even if not the entire document as there are almost 160 pages! A lot of content throughout, and interesting to read in the light of the recent National Skills Strategy announced only a few weeks ago.

'Learner accounts' and more information for employers, as well as those currently employed, are amongst the initiatives that may ring familiar. Published a year before the Freud Report, looking at welfare to work as a whole and changing the focus and landscape of the industry, this review should definitely be read in its context.

Skills for Growth: The National Skills Strategy

Lord Mandelson unveiled the National Skills strategy on Wednesday, which is built on three key aims:

  • Introducing 35,000 more apprenticeships to create a new class of skilled technicians
  • Creating Skills Accounts for everyone, and
  • Radically simplifying the skills system
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