Employers 'should take the lead'

Citation

(1999), "Employers 'should take the lead'", Education + Training, Vol. 41 No. 2. https://doi.org/10.1108/et.1999.00441bab.004

Employers 'should take the lead'

Employers "should take the lead"

Keywords Competitiveness, Training, Training and Enterprise Councils

National training organizations have told the Government that employers should take the lead in the strategic development of training and enterprise councils.

They also call for greater standardization of approach across the 80 training and enterprise councils, so that large, multi-site employers can take part more effectively in Government training programmes.

The comments are part of the National Training Organization national council's response to the training and enterprise council review.

While broadly supporting the training and enterprise council concept, the national council's response points to a "serious imbalance" in local and national funding of training and business support. Training and enterprise councils currently receive £1.3 billion from the Department for Education and Employment and the Department of Trade and Industry. By contrast, national training organizations receive £10 million to develop the competitiveness of virtually every sector of British industry.

The national council calls for greater clarity of the respective roles of training and enterprise councils and national training organizations. It believes that employers, through training and enterprise councils and national training organizations, should have greater influence in planning further and higher education and in making education and training more coherent.