News: Performance Management
Lord Leitch praises skills training
30 April 2008
Lord Leitch has told a Department of universities, Innovation and Skills select committee that he is impressed with efforts by the IT industry to boost training and skills.
Computer Weekly reports the Leitch Review suggested that the UK needed to improve high-level skills in order to compete.
However, explaining his findings to the committee, Lord Leitch said that the IT sector’s work with universities and the government is “incredibly impressive”.
According to the news provider, he said: “IT technicians and professionals are becoming more important for the UK economy. We were incredibly impressed at how IT companies across the nation have come together for a common good.”
In order o succeed it is important that the country is better than its “global competitors”, he added, noting that both India and china were developing their own IT skills.
A recent survey conducted by the Confederation of British Industry found that 53 per cent of the employers it questioned admitted they were concerned about their ability to recruit suitably skilled employees.
