UK Needs To Be More Ambitious In Order To Make The Economic Quarter Finals

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Experts today warned that the UK’s economy – currently the sixth largest in the world – could slip down the international ranks if it does not drastically improve its skills and employment systems.

“Ambition 2020”, published today by the UK Commission for Employment and Skills, says that an extra 10 million people need to improve their skills if the UK is to achieve its ambition of being in the top eight countries in economic quarter finals by 2020 but we are only on target to achieve just half that.

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