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Skills tsar Chris Humphries warns against "the wrong sorts of training"

As unemployment hits 1.92 million, and another government minister is criticised as being out of touch with stark reality of the downturn by saying there was "light at the end of tunnel", one man brings a little more sense to the debate about getting people back to work.

Chris Humphries, as chief executive of the UK Commission for Employment and Skills, is warning that we could be about to make the same recession mistakes as Labour did in the 1970s and the Tories followed in the 1990s.

He's worried about employers and government initiatives providing the wrong sort of training in an effort to reduce dole queues. Watch this video from UKCES to find out more.

 

 

 


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