Great Britain: government launches Department for Business and Skills

A department with a wide scope. Mandelson’s job won’t be easy. Of course, he will have to be businesses’ attorney (particularly SMEs), but also consumers’ attorney. He will have to develop strategies for promising sectors and will therefore be in charge of implementing appropriate training policies. Training policy notably means better integration of the educational system at global level and better investment into scientific research. In addition to missions on learning and innovation within businesses, the “super-department” will also have to simplify and adjust different regulations. Finally, also in charge of expanding UK export and encourage inward investment, the department will take care of local economic development and of relations with the European economy.
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in maintaining world class universities, expanding access to higher education, investing in the UK’s science base and shaping skills policy and innovation.” The government also wants to include the educational system into economic development, to start training the workforce it will need for the coming recovery.

A department with a wide scope. Mandelson’s job won’t be easy. Of course, he will have to be businesses’ attorney (particularly SMEs), but also consumers’ attorney. He will have to devel

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