DPG News Archive

21-Feb-2005

Skilled jobs more difficult to fill

The British Chamber of Commerce (BCC) have compared two surveys of 6,000 businesses conducted ten years apart, and found that there has been a fifty percent increase in the number of companies who admit to difficulties in finding skilled workers. David Frost, Director General of the BCC, told a...


09-Feb-2005

Training schemes should meet needs of employers

The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) have responded to the Conservative parties proposals for tackling the skills shortages facing the UK economy. Victoria Gill, CIPD adviser on learning, training and development, said that the priority for government was to ensure that...