27-11-2016, 10:40 AM
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Re: The Skills Gap
Originally Posted by Muddy
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Why do we have a skills gap in the UK?So bad that we have to import people from other countries to fill skilled jobs ?
I.e. How can a tiny country like Cuba train and export doctors all over the world while we in the UK cannot?
Because Government and 'industry' will not invest sufficient funds into education and training.
28-11-2016, 09:20 AM
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Re: The Skills Gap
Originally Posted by gumbud
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I think she knows what 'all' means??
28-11-2016, 09:54 AM
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Re: The Skills Gap
Originally Posted by Muddy
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Why do we have a skills gap in the UK?So bad that we have to import people from other countries to fill skilled jobs ?
I.e. How can a tiny country like Cuba train and export doctors all over the world while we in the UK cannot?
I think it is partly due to the obsession some governments have had with trying to make all children of equal academic ability instead of channelling children according to their strengths and natural practical abilities.As we have discussed in previous threads, not all children are best suited to an academic further education and would benefit from college based trade apprenticeships .
Cuban doctor training, I don't know but assume it is down to education/training and a health system that is not overburdened and therefore presents an attractive prospect as a profession.
28-11-2016, 06:11 PM
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Re: The Skills Gap
Lack of training in the UK imo is a purposeful strategy to reduce labour costs. UK people expect a certain wage, IT professionals , accountants, bankers, expect a certain wage. Keeping such people trained in the latest software versions or laws is expensive and just means those people will demand more salary. Older peopleesp are more savvy, more clued up, not as easily manipulated and controlled as youngsters.So in many companies, long termers are flatlined. They find they are not being given any training in new technologies or latest software versions and year on year they become less skilled. At the same time their salaries are flatlined too. They don't get pay rises that meet the continually rising inflation. In fact they are going backwards though many don't realise it. Getting no significant salary increase year on year is actually having salary reduced.
Companies give training to youngsters whilst at the same time investing in cheap foreign labour. You ask why do we have a skills gap? Because companies can pay seasonal economic immigrants far less than long in the tooth UK employees.
In the end, like everything else, you have to take personal responsibility for your own career and your own training at your own expense, just as you have to take responsibility for your own health now. We are all on our own now and left to fend in a world of ruthless competition. Company loyalty counts for nothing.
28-11-2016, 10:52 PM
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Re: The Skills Gap
When I worked in sales for a major German company, visits to their factories were very instructive - productivity. I read somewhere that British factory productivity is lower than France. In Germany, work began at 0730, no reading newspapers or chatting over paper cups of coffee. Ten minute break for bier und rolls then hard graft.Unions here are very interested in effective training schemes, middle management less so...
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