Confronting the Skills Paradox
An 18 month project with City & Guilds looking at participation in adult learning
"skills"
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- CBI: Further education failing us CBI take on skills - claims the FE sector is underperforming due to an uncompetitive market from : duncanoleary 13th July 2006
- Ewart Keep: government's skills strategy not the answer He argues its the shape of the labour market and the 'black box' of the company - not the stock of skills - that is the real barrier to moving to a knowledge intensive economy from : duncanoleary 13th July 2006
- Mick Fletcher: How to get people learning? Make qualifications a must He argues that we learn for two reasons: because we have to (certification) and because we see a benefit (i.e. low benfit at level 2, high benefit from a degree) from : duncanoleary 13th July 2006
- Graduate glut devalues price of a degree - Britain - Times Online Report on book by Phillip Brown and Anthony Hesketh arguing that we have an oversupply of graduates from : duncanoleary 13th July 2006
- Nick Pearce: Qualifications must be about learning something new Article by Nick Pearce: he argues (1) the failure of NVQs is to ignore learning in favour of accrediting what people already know, (2) we need to clarify what a 'demand-led' system actually means from : duncanoleary 13th July 2006
- ESRC study: on vocational learning for low-achieving school leavers (pdf) Shows that acquiring vocational skills dramatically enhances chances of employment. But has much less of an effect on bringing wages up to the level of others with equivalent qualifications. from : duncanoleary 13th July 2006
- Study of training of exercise to music instructors (pdf) Finds that 'training' can lead to different outcomes - including disempowering the people involved if it is too reductive. Argues that training can either expands horizons and develops abilities or simply train to conform and follow scripts written by others. from : duncanoleary 13th July 2006
- Geoff Mason report on relationship between high skills and high value added product strategies (pdf) Finds that there is a link between: (1) high skills and high value added product strategies, and (2) exposure to competition and high value added product strategies. Suggests that this means employers in some sectors will be resistent to moving up the value chain. from : duncanoleary 13th July 2006
- David Willets on FE White Paper "The most telling section of the [Foster] report was, as so often, hidden away in the appendices. Appendix 2 gives an outline of further education systems abroad. The US, Denmark, the Netherlands and Australia thrive on greater autonomy and a streamlined accreditation system. "The white paper's relative neglect of the over-25s is tantamount to ageism" from : duncanoleary 18th July 2006
- Futureskills Scotland: International comparative studt Really interesting. Finds that: "Scotland's labour quality stands favourable comparison with the world's best performing economies. In contrast, the quality of demand is not sufficient to employ the available labour. In the first instance, therefore, the quality of human capital is not a leading cause of Scotland's relatively low ranking in the economic performance league tables." i.e. shape of the labour market, not shortage of human capital the problem. from : duncanoleary 2nd August 2006