UK 'relatively skill poor', claims CEO of UK skills commission

Michael Davis, chief executive of the UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES), has urged UK manufacturing businesses to fire up their ambition and invest in advanced, high-value strategies and skills to drive economic growth and job creation.

The UK is "relatively skill poor", Davis told senior manufacturing leaders at a BAE Systems event this month. "We are not in the top 10 countries and not on track to be world class by 2020," he said.