Sentence examples for skill sector from inspiring English sources

The report says young women are often steered into stereotypical apprenticeships, such as childcare, hairdressing and beauty, which are low paid.Currently, while there are 10 applicants for every high skilled role, there are 45 applicants for vacancies in the low skill sector.

A recent Deloitte survey found that there were 1.5 million people in London employed in "high skill" sectors – well ahead of the 1.2 million in New York, 784,000 in LA, and 630,000 in Hong Kong.

A narrowing employment base and dependence on low wage and low skill sectors has resulted in younger age groups leaving the area.

The scheme is for teachers, tutors and trainers in the learning and skills sector who are competent and experienced but unqualified.

It also says it has achieved cost savings of £55m for educational institutions and providers including schools, local authorities and the skills sector in the past year alone.

Our panel: Rob Wye is the chief executive of the Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS), an organisation which aims accelerate improvement, increase participation and raise standards and achievement in the learning and skills sector in England.

But when it comes to impenetrable verbiage, even the writers of the NAO's latest publication - Securing Strategic Leadership for the Learning and Skills Sector in England - are mere amateurs compared with those in further education.

While there are lots of positive things about the report, and I wholeheartedly support its general ethos, I am concerned that some of the most intractable problems that the skills sector faces have been neglected – and in some cases ignored completely.

Considering there's a big gap in the IT skills sector (it's predicted that there will be 750,000 jobs to fill by 2017, and last year there were only 50,000 computer science graduates), this is something that needs to be improved over and above what has already been done in schools across the UK in the last 12 months.

Step Up! is backed by Semta, the skills sector council for science, engineering and manufacturing technologies.

Employers within the middle-skill sector face a few hurdles in recruiting new talent, including: a lack of education about the various training and employment options, an outdated image of the industries these jobs fit within; and a lack of sex appeal that industries - especially web-based ones - have.