Posts tagged ‘Skills’
Skills: Coalition skills plans
Friday, July 9th, 2010Reversing the over-importance placed on higher education is emerging as the coalition’s main theme as it gears its skills policy around the economic recovery. Skills policy is a devolved matter except for some UK-wide bodies. When UK ministers use the word national, it therefore usually means English. To be truly national, an idea needs to be suggested by the UK Government and accepted by the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Ireland administrations. During the election campaign William Hague said the Tories had learned from Reg Empey’s experience in government while they were in opposition. Within...[full story]
Skills: What’s the problem with skills?
Friday, July 9th, 2010Brian Acheson sees the solution in young people educated for the economy, using the block grant to grow the private sector and government trusting colleges to get on with their job. Here’s an interesting vox pop from some of our brightest 16 and 17-year olds. A fundraising programme from my son’s school features answers to a number of questions. The answers to the question ‘possible career path’ contain no surprises. Out of 46 boys, almost half want to become doctors or lawyers. But, is this a good thing? How does this unrepresentative picture impact on the need to grow a truly...[full story]
