Cars to grind to a halt in supplier slowdown_2
17 August 2012
The auto industry is reeling from the news that suppliers are to work to a spare parts go-slow.
In its latest report to me the Skills Task Force highlights a serious adult skills gap. It found that more than 30 per cent did not have five good GCSEs or the vocational equivalent.
Britain’s skills deficit is not new. A century ago a Parliamentary select committee report noted the much lower numbers of British technicians entering the workforce compared...