Towards Ambition 2020: skills, jobs, growth
The UK Commission has just published ‘Towards Ambition 2020: skills, jobs, growth’. This is a report which contains our advice to government on how the UK’s education, employment and skills systems could be simplified, made more effective and become more responsive to the needs of their customers.
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Published October 2009
The UK Commission has just published ‘Towards Ambition 2020: skills, jobs, growth’.
This is a report which contains our advice to government on how the UK’s education, employment and skills systems could be simplified, made more effective and become more responsive to the needs of their customers.
The report focuses on our three key priorities:
building employer ambition and engagement with skills;
motivating people to develop their skills;
and empowering learners and employers to drive the supply and performance of the employment and skills systems.
We believe our proposals will enable government and employers to place more trust and accountability in providers, such as colleges and universities, to ensure that they can respond more effectively to the needs of the labour market, whether nationally, by sector or locally.
Our recommendations also recognise that, in a time of pressure on public expenditure, government’s policy intent must be to maximise the proportion of public investment that reaches front-line teaching and learning.
The UK Commission’s advice in this report is offered with the aim of establishing cross-party, four-nation consensus for these proposals. They will require ten years of consistent policy and determined implementation if the UK is to become world class by 2020.
Our assessment of the UK’s progress towards making the UK a world leader in skills, employment and productivity by 2020 was described in our report, ‘Ambition 2020’. This was published in April and will be updated annually.
