Lord Leitch has published his long-awaited final report about the UK’s long-term skills needs.
It recommends employers be made to sign up...
Skills shortages
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Business leaders have set out their Christmas wish list to government as it approaches its last big parliamentary day of...
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Business leaders call on employers to help fight the UK skills shortage
by Greg Pitcherby Greg PitcherBusiness leaders today insisted employers needed to “step up to the plate” to help the government fight off a skills...
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The average final year medical student owes more than £21,000, according to a survey by the British Medical Association (BMA)...
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A third of firms feel a shortage of quality staff is the biggest threat to their business, a Lloyds TSB...
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The European Social Fund (ESF) is to invest 2.75bn euros (£1.83bn) in jobs and skills in England over the next seven...
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City law firms look to Australia and New Zealand for financial lawyers
by Greg Pitcherby Greg PitcherUK law firms are increasingly looking to Australia and New Zealand for financial lawyers, according to a recruitment specialist.
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Scottish employment growth is slowing, partly due to a lack of suitable candidates for jobs, research has revealed.
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The rising number of migrant workers in the UK is allowing the domestic workforce to move into better-paid white-collar jobs,...
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European countries combined have a knowledge economy as big as the US, but a failure to invest in learning has...
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Professional polish workers are helping to fill the UK financial services skills gap, research revealed.Far from simply supplying the UKÂ ...
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The EEF organisation, which represents manufacturers and engineering organisations, has called on the government to address the UK’s skills gap...
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CBI calls for temporary ban on migrant workers from Romania and Bulgaria.
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Government incentives have not encouraged up to a third of employers to train staff
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The education system – and not employers – is squarely to blame for the rapidly falling number of science and engineering graduates in the UK, the CBI has insisted