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Learning to leverage Leitch

By Sue Mennell (January 2008 Issue)
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The Leitch Review of Skills, which was published in December 2006, looks ahead to 2020 and examines what skills the UK will need in order to be competitive as an economy, what skills will be needed by business and what skills will be needed for a successful workforce.

The very top line summary of what it means to achieve the Leitch ambition is one in every two adults moving up a qualification level – quite an extraordinary scale of ambition.

Given the enormity of the challenge, Professor Mike Campbell, who was a key adviser to report author Lord Sandy Leitch and is director of development at the Sector Skills Development Agency, might well have expected the past 12 months to have been very difficult. Instead, he says that, in the year since publication of Lord Leitch’s report, government and employers have thrown their weight behind achieving the targets it sets out.

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