PBR: Employers to tackle skills shortage

The Chancellor has said after 2010 a new statutory entitlement to skills training may be required. He says: “There is an urgent need to make progress now and by consensus - so the Secretary for Education is today appointing the former Director-General of the CBI, Sir Digby Jones to advance an agenda of: employees taking more responsibility to train; employers taking more responsibility to offer time off, with in return more say over what training is provided; and government taking more responsibility to reform and invest in training provision at work, in colleges and online.” Meanwhile ...