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January 01 2006

by Briefing staff
Although supporting schools is the biggest strand of community activity for many companies, it is more beneficial for companies to focus on the specific skills required by their current and potential employees.
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Support for schools is the biggest single strand of community activity for many companies. Ex-Zurich Financial Services boss, Sandy Leitch, sets out why education matters to business: that many functionally illiterate and innumerate citizens make unproductive workers and poor consumers. Yet despite pressure from successive governments - City Academies being only the latest attempt - many companies remain very wary of getting directly involved in delivery of secondary education. Local support is right and proper, as is intervention in the national public policy debate. But schools management is quite another thing. Better by far, we think, to focus on specific skills required by your sector for your current and potential employees, as the skills academies are doing. And don't forget the poor relation of tertiary education, the FE sector. Geared to producing qualifications relevant to the world of work, further education colleges also meet the needs are many disadvantaged communities. Worth a closer look.

Corporate Citizenship Briefing, issue no: 85 - January, 2006

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