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STEM education: plugging the global skills shortage
Ensuring a strong labour market in a technology driven future, will require the STEM subjects to engage with students. Creating an environment of proactive thought at a young stage is key to success.
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Skills shortage still preoccupying UK business
While inflation and an increase in interest rates have dominated headlines in the UK of late, it has been the tight labour market and growing skills shortages that have been preoccupying the minds of many industry leaders.
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Skills shortage and Brexit 'could have disastrous impact'
UK faces a renewed skills gap crisis. What can be done to mitigate this post-Brexit reality?
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Overseas skills shortage looms over UK hospitality boom
The hospitality industry in the UK is facing staff shortages caused by the nation’s record employment rate causing a job seeker shortage and that Brexit is deterring workers from both Asia and the EU.
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STEM companies look abroad to overcome skills shortage
Almost half of science and engineering businesses in the UK are seeking to recruit skilled staff from overseas because of a crippling shortage of indigenous workers, according to a recent survey.
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Pandemic alters view on shortage migrant skills
The fallout from this year's Covid-19 pandemic has proved a major influence on recommendations from the UK government's Migration Advisory Committee for changes to the Shortage Occupation Lists (SOL).
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Skills shortage as UK vacancies surge
An increasing number of professional vacancies in the UK is not being matched by the number of jobseekers applying for the posts, according to a report from leading jobs board CV-Library.
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Shortage of IT skills ‘holding back UK productivity’
Productivity in UK companies is being restricted by a dire shortage of digital skills in their workforces, according to a survey by the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC).
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‘Take us seriously on migration’ businesses tell ministers
Brexit and immigration uncertainty blamed as the manufacturing industry shows worst skills shortage since 1989. The British Chambers of Commerce and businesses frustrated as they can't attract the right skills.
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Study finds lack of HR planning in workforce upskilling
A new report highlights the need for businesses to plan and invest in human skills to adapt to future automation whilst another indicates automation could fill a Brexit skills shortage.
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UK visa system 'unresponsive to skills shortages'
The UK's largest business organisation is calling for immediate government action - including the introduction of a more responsive immigration system - to tackle the nation's growing skills shortage.
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Financial services facing skills 'timebomb'
The vast majority of HR executives in financial services believe their companies are facing a tech skills shortage, according to a new report.
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How can Britain address the digital skills crisis in schools?
A new report from the House of Commons' science and technology committee sets out how schools can address a serious digital skills shortage in the UK.
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‘Relax Visas’ to attract skills to UK
An overhaul of the visa system is necessary if the UK is to attract the global talent it needs to overcome the current skills shortage, according to a new report.
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UK business ‘needs Ukrainian refugee skills’
Ukrainian immigrants offer the best solution to help solve the skills shortage in the UK
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Accelerating growth: are the brakes coming off global immigration policies?
Given the ever-growing skills shortage across the globe, it is small wonder that many governments are scrambling to liberalise immigration policies – while adopting programmes aimed at upskilling indigenous populations – in a bid to solve the problem.
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Report highlights UK staff shortage woes
More than three-quarters of British companies that attempted to recruit staff in the third quarter of the year reported difficulties in finding candidates with the right skills, according to a new survey.
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CBI urges overhaul of skills visa system
The UK's largest business organisation is calling on the government to create an independent body with powers to decide what overseas skills should be on the nation's Shortage Occupation List.
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Construction industry demands continued access to EU skills
Trade bodies in the UK have united to call for a continued flow of EU workers into the country after Brexit. Concerns over a skilled labour shortage coincide with a housing shortage in the UK.
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Skills shortages continue to bedevil AI introduction
A shortage of relevant technological skill is hampering the expansion of AI in the workplace, suggests new research. The poll also found that many do not feel AI threatens their jobs.
