Confronting the Skills Paradox
An 18 month project with City & Guilds looking at participation in adult learning
- IT skills in short supply, NCC finds 'Businesses are finding it harder to hire IT staff with the right skills, a survey from the National Computer Centre has found. Just fewer than 40% of respondents indicated specific recruitment and retention issues, a significant increase on the 29% reported last year. In many cases shortages are seen as a recruitment rather than a retention issue as 73% of those indicating the need for new skills plan to acquire them by re-skilling and training existing staff.' 12th February 2008
- CIOs 'need to demonstrate non-IT skills' 'Chief information officers (CIOs) need to demonstrate non-IT skills as firms increasingly look for broader capabilities, according to the findings of a recent study. Conducted by Gartner, the research suggested that companies are looking for such attributes as technology moves more into the sphere of business, vnunet.com reports.' 12th February 2008
- IT skills shortage 'reaches highest level' The IT skills shortage level has reached 6.8 per cent, new research from the National Computing Centre (NCC) has revealed. 12th February 2008
- ESRC Society Today - Knowledge Economy Good summary of the evidence on the emergence of a knowelgde economy 1st February 2008
- Study: Are skills a cost or asset? Argues (1) Skills are valuable, (2) firms underinvest in skills despite this, (3) firms should have to report investment in training 1st February 2008
- Learning and Skills Council proposes diversity body to set professional standards LSC wants to set up a diversity body. 14th January 2008
- Dance lesson vouchers planned for the elderly | Special Reports | Guardian Unlimited Politics Mix between individual budgets and community learning suggested by DIUS 14th January 2008
- Stumbling and Mumbling: Unemployment kills Link to some research which finds that 'We find that job displacement leads to a 15-20% increase in death rates during the following 20 years.' 4th December 2007
- Stumbling and Mumbling: Brown on skills Chris Dillow post with some good links on how people's skills are often over-used, rather than in under-supply, in the economy.