Great Britain: employers complain about the vocational training system

The main employers' confederation (CBI) points out, in a document published on November 20th, the faults of the vocational training system, and makes four reform proposals, before the publication of a report ordered by the ministry of Economy on the crisis of qualifications in Great Britain (Leitch Report). (Ref 061165)
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The provisional governmental report stresses that positions for unskilled workers will fall from 3.4 million today to 600 000 before 2020, which makes it all the more urgent to raise workers’ qualification levels. Nowadays, one fifth of workers are unable to master the basics of writing and counting. « The country suffers from a faulty system of training, considered by many employers as inadequate and unable to satisfy their needs », says the CBI. Hera are the CBI’s main complaints and its four

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