A year on from the publication of the Leitch Review, new skills supremo Chris Humphries has admitted employers are still...
Skills shortages
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High Court to rule on changes to visa regulations for highly skilled migrants
by Greg Pitcherby Greg PitcherThousands of skilled foreign workers and their employers were holding their breath last Friday as a judicial review of controversial...
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Gordon Brown dragged the Leitch vision firmly back to the top of the political agenda last week with a speech...
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Human resources news and analysis including:
Employer opinion on the Leitch Review of Skills one year since it was published...
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Gordon Brown has unveiled plans for a National Skills Academy for Construction on the London 2012 Olympic site as part...
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Unions have urged the government to up its response to a call for increased training provision in the construction industry,...
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Government peer-to-peer website aims to provide pool of skills resources
by Mike Berryby Mike BerryA new website which utilises social networking technology common to sites like Facebook has been set up to help employers...
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A shortage of top-class number-crunchers is driving a surge in financial outsourcing, according to an expert.Brian Pitman, senior advisor at...
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Occupational health standards have been published for the construction industry, giving employers benchmarks against which to measure their activities for...
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Skills minister David Lammy to announce Train to Gain expansion plans
by Greg Pitcherby Greg PitcherSkills minister David Lammy will reveal expansion plans for the ailing Train to Gain scheme in the next fortnight, he...
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More than four in 10 UK firms believe that a skills shortage represents a significant threat to their business, new...
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The skills shortage is currently being talked about as though it is a new thing that skills shortages never existed...
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Employers are using migrant workers to ‘cushion’ the impact of the skills shortage, rather than train the UK’s older workers,...
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This week we bring you a taste of what’s making the headlines in human resources, including:
Sainsbury’s HR chief Imelda...
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Education and skills topped the agenda in today’s Queen’s speech.The government plans to phase in the extend the education participation...