Developing workforce skills for a strong economy: Written evidence submitted by Dr Stefan Speckesser

In response to this Call for Evidence by the Public Accounts Committee, I would like to summarise some key recommendations how workforce skills can be improved by further developing the existing post-16 education offer.

What I recommend is based on my own research as a labour economist, which over the course of almost thirty years covered a wide range of areas, from enhancing high-level technical skills via improving mid-range skills required in many occupations to training programmes for (formally) low-skilled people, who left school after GCSEs with very little subsequent education participation and achievement.