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10 Minutes with... Robin Higgins
23 July 2015 Matt Sisson, Projects and Membership Manager
The annual CBI education and skills survey of firms’ staffing requirements warns of an impending skills shortage in the UK. According to the survey, more than half of employers are worried about being able to recruit enough high-skilled workers, the BBC reports. The Times Higher also covers the story, and leads with the news that “More than one in five businesses have had to provide remedial support to bring graduates’ basic skills up to an acceptable level in the last year”.
The article goes on to highlight that, when asked to suggest areas for improvement in HE, “50 per cent of employers said that they would like to see undergraduate courses made more ‘business relevant’, while “Forty per cent wanted to see more done to ensure that students are ‘job-ready’ on graduation”.
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23 July 2015 
Matt Sisson, Projects and Membership Manager
