UK will face a shortage of three million highly skilled workers

By 2022, the UK could be missing approximately three million highly skilled workers, according to a new annual CEO survey by PwC. The report says that, by that time, there will be 15 million high-skill jobs in the country. This state will actually come as a result of automating low-skill, routine tasks, which will place more emphasis on higher-skill, agile roles. Another interesting conclusion is that more than nine million people could be chasing four million jobs. This is according to the government’s State of the Nation report. The Open University is warning that something needs to change, as soon… [Continue Reading]