SKILLS FOR A NEW ECONOMY - INVESTING IN WORKERS AND CLOSING THE GREEN SKILLS GAP

The process under-skilling and over-skilling of workers, in skills transition that invests in the workforce and and productive activity (eg energy and food of gaining a qualification undoubtedly builds on relation to the skills required of them to perform closes the green skills gap? production) to service-based activity. [...] THE GREEN 2.1 DEFINING THE GREEN ECONOMY Make UK, in their assessment of the manufacturing Table 5 shows how all regions of the country, except It is difficult to distinguish the role of green skills industries, found that many of the skills they Inner and Outer London, have an average skill JOBS AND SKILLS in high-level assessments of skills gaps and identified as needed for the green economy alr. [...] operational definition for green jobs and skills is for many businesses and workers, there is a need The proportion of green jobs in the UK economy intrinsically linked to a lack of a national vision for to ‘green’ current jobs, much like the need to ‘green’ manufacturing processes.68 is currently 27.31% of the total number of jobs. [...] The skills gaps described can 16 17 NEW ECONOMICS FOUNDATION SKILLS FOR A NEW ECONOMY NEW ECONOMICS FOUNDATION SKILLS FOR A NEW ECONOMY INVESTING IN WORKERS AND INVESTING IN WORKERS AND CLOSING THE GREEN SKILLS GAP CLOSING THE GREEN SKILLS GAP FIGURE 2: AVERAGE WEEKS OF EDUCATIONAL TRAINING REQUIRED PER PERSON TO LIFT 2.3 THE QUALITY OF JOBS 2.4 FILLING THE GAPS THE AVERAGE SKILL LEVEL OF UK REGIO. [...] 131 As 24 25 NEW ECONOMICS FOUNDATION SKILLS FOR A NEW ECONOMY NEW ECONOMICS FOUNDATION SKILLS FOR A NEW ECONOMY INVESTING IN WORKERS AND INVESTING IN WORKERS AND CLOSING THE GREEN SKILLS GAP CLOSING THE GREEN SKILLS GAP Of the government-funded training that reaches lower- The UK government should develop, alongside FIGURE 5: PROPOSED POLICY STRUCTURE AND OBJECTIVES TO DELIVER THE SKILLS skilled.