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03/12/2004
Tories criticise Chancellor's proposed skills programme
Shadow Education Secretary Tim Collins has attacked Gordon Brown's proposed Employer Training Programme, which offer those with no GCSE level qualifications time off to avail of free training.
Mr Collins said: "Gordon Brown has simply drawn attention to Labour's failure on skills. More than 33,000 pupils left school in 2003 without a single GCSE, and employers' organisations complain of the lack of basic literacy and numeracy among many school leavers. After seven and a half years of failing to address these vital issues, Labour's record on skills is still all talk."
Describing the proportion of unskilled workers in the UK as the country's "Achilles heel," Gordon Brown said that a pilot scheme designed to encourage companies to train staff was to be extended nationally.
Mr Brown said that almost a third of British workers had "low or no skills" - the highest proportion of unskilled labour in any of the major countries in the European Union.
He proposed an additional £10 a week allowance for those taking up the offer of training.
(GB)
Mr Collins said: "Gordon Brown has simply drawn attention to Labour's failure on skills. More than 33,000 pupils left school in 2003 without a single GCSE, and employers' organisations complain of the lack of basic literacy and numeracy among many school leavers. After seven and a half years of failing to address these vital issues, Labour's record on skills is still all talk."
Describing the proportion of unskilled workers in the UK as the country's "Achilles heel," Gordon Brown said that a pilot scheme designed to encourage companies to train staff was to be extended nationally.
Mr Brown said that almost a third of British workers had "low or no skills" - the highest proportion of unskilled labour in any of the major countries in the European Union.
He proposed an additional £10 a week allowance for those taking up the offer of training.
(GB)
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