Skills for growth: the national skills strategy

This skills strategy sets out an active approach to equipping England for globalisation by ensuring supply of the skills that underwrite the industries of the future: skills for high-tech, low carbon driven growth. To tackle the gap in intermediate skills in England, for example, apprenticeship numbers are to be expanded to create a modern class of technicians. They will have transferable skills, gained as a result of both academic study and practical on-the-job experience. The goal of this strategy is a skills system defined not simply by targets based on achieved qualifications, but by ‘real world’ outcomes, a system that provides a higher level of vocational experience, promoting a greater mix of work and study and encouraging skills that are transferable from job to job. Skills must be taught expertly and carry genuine weight with employers. Opportunities must be broadened for students to progress through further education into higher education.

This skills strategy sets out an active approach to equipping England for globalisation by ensuring supply of the skills that underwrite the industries of the future: skills for high-tech, low carbon driven growth. To tackle the gap in intermediate skills in England, for example, apprenticeship numbers are to be expanded to create a modern class of technicians. They will have transferable skills, gained as a result of both academic study and practical on-the-job experience. The goal of this strategy is a skills system defined not simply by targets based on achieved qualifications, but ...  [+] Show more