Description
This brief report describes new developments and initiatives in the UK on the issue of employability skills. The report focusses particularly on: *The Enterprising Skills Development Movement *A brief history of employer involvement and government partnership initiatives regarding employability *Future development of both key skills and enterprise skills in vocational education and training. An appendix for this report is now included, updating the content of employability skills development in the UK. It concentrates on the wider key skills programs, and enterprise skills and education.
Summary
Executive summary
(Please note: as this is a relatively short report a typical executive summary has not been provided)
For the last 15 years there has been a series of policy initiatives that have advocated for the development of employability skills by young and unemployed people in the United Kingdom. These policy initiatives have sought to incorporate such skills into both academic and general education (secondary and tertiary) and vocational education and training. Although one cannot over-generalise, the call for these employability skills has been championed by two distinct but related movements:
- Key Skills Development Movement
- Enterprising Skills Development/Education Movement.
Dave Turner, the author of this report, is a consultant who has recently returned to Australia, having worked in the United Kingdom for 15 years on matters relating to education-industry links and enterprise education. This report provides an update on employability skills development in the United Kingdom.
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