Skills For All: Ten Key Insights from Employers

The report, Skills for All: Ten Key Insights from Employers, reveals that when addressing a skills gap, more than half of employers surveyed said that, in the event of a skills gaps, they typically prioritise developing existing staff over hiring externally and that a national skills policy that supports all ages and all levels would best benefit their organisation.

Based on polling carried out by Ipsos and The St Martin’s Group (SMG), and gathering evidence from more than 800 employers from two surveys across England, the report also finds that less than 10% of those surveyed selected creating more university places as the one initiative that the UK government should prioritise to help support organisations like theirs – instead, indicating a stronger preference for greater focus on vocational and technical training.