An appetite for learning: increasing employee demand for skills development

Citation

McQuaid R, Lindsay C & Johnson S (2010) An appetite for learning: increasing employee demand for skills development. UK Commission for Employment and Skills. Praxis Ideas into Action, 3. http://www.ukces.org.uk/publications/praxis-3

Abstract
Raising the demand for skills amongst individuals in the workforce is critical if the UK is to meet its 2020 Ambition. This edition of Praxis highlights a number of policy interventions that the evidence suggests can work, and proposes a policy framework for describing and understanding these. The paper aims to stimulate wider debate about the policy interventions most likely to address the barriers to learning faced by the UK workforce. To this end the UK Commission welcomes readers' responses to the following questions, prompted by this paper.

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Professor Ronald McQuaid

Emeritus Professor, Management, Work and Organisation