National skills strategy published
Business Secretary Lord Mandelson has launched the government's new skills strategy. Skills for Growth - The National Skills Strategy sets out a government target for three quarters of the population to go to university or get an advanced technical qualification by the age of 30.
Lord Mandelson said:
'Higher level skills have never been more important to our growth. This strategy marks a radical shift in our skills priorities. It shows how we'll make sure we've got the skills to power the new industries and jobs of the future.
We need engineers to lay the cables to expand access to high-speed internet, skilled people to build the electric vehicles of the future, and technicians to develop the medicines that will save lives.
The goal of this strategy is a skills system defined not simply by targets based on achieved qualifications, but by ‘real world' outcomes. Relevant, quality skills, with real market value.'
The report was published in November 2009.
You can download the report from the BIS website.
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Created on: 13 November 2009
Last updated: 16 November 2009