Raising skill levels is essential for raising competitiveness

摘要

In the increasingly competitive global market, where fortunes will turn more and more on successful deployment of knowledge arid talent, it is crucial for businesses to invest in the training and development of their workforce. The engineering industry often finds itself in an unenviable position in the UK. Evidence continually points to the sector's consolidation and metamorphosis, with the apparently conflicting messages of simultaneous skills shortages. While it is true that the sector has witnessed large-scale redundancies, these are at the unskilled and semi-skilled level. The need for companies to bring their staff up to highly skilled levels has never been greater. As the skill level of the workforce increases, so will the sector's competitiveness, efficiency and adaptability.