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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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Work Foundation (UK)

A report prepared for the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Commercial Education Trust

Employability and Skills in the UK: Redefining the debate [November 2010]

Authors:  Jonathan Wright, Ian Brinkley and Naomi Clayton

http://workfoundation.org/research/publications/publicationdetail.aspx?oItemId=273&parentPageID=102&PubType=

or

http://workfoundation.org/Assets/Docs/LCCI-CET%20Future%20Skills%20Policy%20FINAL%2001%2011%2010.pdf

[full-text, 43 pages]

Press Release 3 November 2010

Private-public gap in skills must be bridged if regional divide is to be closed

http://workfoundation.org/pressmedia/news/newsarticle.aspx?oItemId=380

Abstract

The debate about employability and skills in the UK is long standing. The system is not fit for purpose; skills gaps, shortages and under utilisation remain a problem. The mismatch in skills supply and demand is distinctly spatial. The paper highlights two key challenges which may widen the gaps that exist between cities and regions; public sector cuts and an increasingly knowledge intensive economy. An agenda for change is proposed that sets out a local and integrated response.

Executive Summary 3

1. Introduction 6

2. The challenges ahead 10

3. The skills system: where are we now? 24

4. Policy Implications 37

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