Ambition 2020: World Class Skills and Jobs for the UK

The UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES) has recently published its state of the nations report, ‘Ambition 2020: World Class Skills and Jobs for the UK’. The report challenges the government and business to raise their efforts, their ambitions, and the nation’s skills to prevent the UK slipping behind its international competitors over the next ten years.

The report shows significant improvements in the UK’s skills levels over the last decade but finds that urgent action needs to be taken now to ensure post-recession success and to reach the goal of being in the top eight countries in the world for productivity, employment and skills by 2020. The report’s findings include a fundamental mismatch between supply and demand in the labour market and state that to achieve the recommended goals will require an additional 20 million qualifications by 2020.

Read the report on the UKCES website.