John Denham, Professorial Research Fellow of the IPA and former Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, reflects on report findings
For the past 20 years and longer, Ministers of all parties have wanted to see more employers support employees and apprentices to gain higher levels skills and higher education. With strong bi-partisan support in a relatively non-ideological area of policy it seems odd that employer supported higher skills have not become a more important part of the skills and education system.
