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The 'Skills, Jobs, Growth, Convention 2010' brought together over 40 of the world’s leading employment and skills experts for a two day conference to help tackle the serious shortcomings of the UK’s competitiveness in the world economy.
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Sir Mike Rake provides an employer’s perspective on the UK Commission’s latest publication – Towards Ambition 2020: Skills, Jobs, Growth
Chris Humphries outlines the key messages of the UK Commission’s latest publication Towards Ambition 2020: Skills, Jobs, Growth
Later today, we’ll be publishing our report, “Skills, Jobs, Growth” which contains expert advice to government on how our education, employment and skills systems could be made less bureaucratic, more effective and more responsive to employer needs.
As former head of the British Chambers of Commerce and now CEO of the UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES), Chris will be 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.
All publicly-funded education and training should help recession-proof young people by providing them with 'employability skills', according to a report published today by the government's skills policy watchdog, the UK Commission for Employment and Skills.
Professor Cialdini Reveals How to Persuade UK Businesses To Improve Skills Training
The 'Ambition 2020' Report is the UK Commission for Employment and Skills' first annual assessment of the progress towards making the UK a world leader in employment and skills by 2020.
In 1939, British women filled the jobs left by men who were away fighting in the armed forces. By 1945, 6.5 million were in civilian war work including mechanics, engineering, plumbing, ship building, munitions and aircraft parts.