Written evidence to be reported to the House
Education and Skills Bill
12:00 pm
Richard Wainer: It is absolutely right that we need better to recognise the high-quality training that goes on in many workplaces. Our surveys, and surveys from other organisations, show that although employers spend £33 billion a year on training, only a third of that training leads to recognised qualifications. So, there is a lot of training and investment in training that leads to higher skills and improved productivity that is not counted in the Government’s statistics and would not be an appropriate route for a young person to take. You are absolutely right: we need to put in place better mechanisms to recognise and accredit the very high-quality training that is going on in workplaces. We are working on pilots with the QCA and some big household names to ensure that the process is as easy as possible and identifies the barriers to employers accrediting their high-quality training so that more firms can follow that path if they want to.