Former shadow chancellor Ed Balls argued that the government should play a role in supporting apprenticeships and the development of a higher skilled workforce to overcome a flatlining of the UK's productivity.
London's very high-skilled workforce – one in two of its residents have a degree – makes the city an appealing investment hotspot.
We've heard from Angeleça Silversides of HealthWatch Kensington and Chelsea how in high-cost, high employment areas it's difficult to recruit and maintain a high-skilled workforce never mind the higher-skilled workforce required for integrated care.
Writing in the Guardian in April, Adonis said: "High-speed rail will demand a high-skilled workforce – 50% of which is likely to require NVQ level 3 (A-level) qualification or above.
There is a reasonably quantifiable way to forecast how innovation-friendly a candidate will be based on their legislative record: add up the percent of laws that a Congressman writes related to high-skilled workforce training, data transparency, and performance-based funding.
Explaining why Britain can still compete with emerging economies as a manufacturing base, EEF's Prothero said: "For higher value-added goods you have to look at skills and the UK provides a high level of skilled workforce.
Students like Chris are why I think that the pundits and politicians who debate the value of higher education in creating a skilled workforce are missing an important point: if we are to prepare students for active citizenship in a rapidly-changing and increasingly global society, we must help them develop a sense of civic responsibility that complements their professional competencies.
Yes, tech is creating jobs, but these jobs require higher skills and higher education than many of the the older, skilled workforce that lost their jobs by the hundreds of thousands during the Great Recession.
Similarly, the OECD has identified increased investment in higher education as a way to reduce the deficit, given the much higher tax returns from a highly skilled workforce.
It is a possibility that the skilled workforce migrates to higher paying, better supplied, and safer working conditions.
