Mick Turner, from Centrica Renewable Energy, said: "Grimsby provides excellent infrastructure for our operations and maintenance facility and has a strong skill base.
In the short term, he said, the US economy would be insulated against this underachievement because it still had a "strong skill base, simply because it was the first economy investing in universal education in the 1960s, and those people still make up a large part of the workforce".
(Staff Nurse: Unit 0502) I think we still lack a good strong skill base for that very, very basic motivating work with clients… there are staff on the team that are very good at that and others who just don' t seem to.
The continuing rise in the number of students choosing science and maths subjects is really encouraging – a strong skills base is going to be essential if the UK is to expand its knowledge economy and remain a top location for global businesses.
Mr Keiller said the UK remains an attractive place to operate, compared with some other parts of the world, because it takes safety seriously, there's security, a lack of corruption, a reliable legal system and a strong skills base.
We aim to strengthen our skills and ways of working to be more responsive, building a strong public sector consultancy skill base and, hopefully, reducing the public sector's demand for commercial sector support.
Karen Boswell, managing director of Hitachi Rail Europe, said: "Today is a celebration of the return of train manufacturing to the north-east, supporting thousands of jobs and developing a strong engineering skills base in the region.
"They have a good skill base.
"The development of the EOWDC will enable the region to extend its reach with regard to offshore wind, further enhancing our renewable energy expertise and drawing upon our strong engineering and technology skills base.
Skill based learning was appreciated more.
