Skills analyst Andy Norman outlines the challenges of doing labour market analysis at the pathway level.
The Challenges of Pathways Analysis
Skills analyst Andy Norman outlines the challenges of doing labour market analysis at the pathway level
Category: Skills
The skills challenge: turning rhetoric into reality
Skills analyst Andy Norman reviews the recent policy developments announced in the Budget and Industrial Strategy White Paper
In his Budget speech the Chancellor Phillip Hammond spoke of building a ‘prosperous and inclusive economy where everybody has the opportunity to shine.’ It is a line in keeping with the type of language that has come to characterise the current government’s ambitions since Theresa May’s speech on the steps of Downing Street in July 2016.
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Technical skills: How do the election manifestos compare?
Skills analyst Andy Norman discusses how the Conservative and Labour Manifestos compare on technical skills
In the aftermath of the 2017 election manifesto launches it was the politically partisan issues of social care, renationalisation and tax that dominated the headlines. Yet it was encouraging to see, despite its relative lack of media attention, both the Labour and Conservative manifestos recognise skills policy as central to the UK’s future prosperity.
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How a lack of technical skills may be holding back the West Midlands economy
Recent analysis by the Centre suggests that the economy is being held back by a lack of key technical skills, with as many as 43% of vacancies for technical roles categorised as skills shortage vacancies.
Earlier this month, in the latest step along a path of regional devolution designed to drive local economic growth across the country, metro mayors were elected in six of the UK’s new combined authorities. In the West Midlands, Conservative Party candidate Andy Street narrowly beat Labour’s Siôn Simon to become the city region’s first elected mayor.
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Response to the Industrial Strategy Green Paper
The Centre responds to the government’s recent green paper, ‘Building our Industrial Strategy’
The government recently published its industrial strategy green paper, outlining its vision for ‘a stronger, fairer Britain that works for everyone’. The Centre for Progressive Capitalism welcomes the government’s ambition to improve living standards and economic growth displayed in the paper.
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How LEPs can ensure apprenticeships drive inclusive growth
As the new Apprenticeship Levy comes into effect, Centre analyst Andy Norman argues that, if armed with the right information, LEPs can ensure apprenticeships drive inclusive growth up and down the country.
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Britain’s quest for productivity growth: Hammond’s small step in the right direction
The Centre responds to a number of policy announcements made by the Chancellor Philip Hammond in the 2017 Budget.
The story of Britain’s post 1945 economy has largely been one of governments trying to work out why productivity across the UK has been so much lower than in other advanced economies. So it shouldn’t be surprising that when the Chancellor of the Exchequer stepped up to deliver his last spring budget, productivity was mentioned 10 times in the speech.
How skills policy can energise the modern industrial strategy
To solve the technical skills shortage and energise the industrial strategy, the government must empower prospective students and technical course providers with the data they need to make the right choices
The failure of successive governments to design and implement effective reforms to technical education in the UK has been well documented. Its legacy, according to the current government, is a complex, confusing system of technical education which ‘does not deliver either for individuals, for the skills needs of employers, or for the wider economy’.
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Britain’s failed skills policies not the fall in sterling is the real crisis
The shock of Brexit and the current fall in sterling has highlighted that Britain’s economic model has been broken for some time
The shock of Brexit and the current fall in sterling has highlighted that Britain’s economic model has been broken for some time. To take advantage of the current predicament which will see lower levels of purchasing power will require a clear industrial strategy to focus on skills, and thereafter monetary policy
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