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With more graduates taking low-skilled jobs, the topic of how industry and higher education can address the shortage of industry skills amongst graduates is an important issue. Many young graduates today are finding it difficult to find employment as they lack the necessary skills that many businesses are looking for.
The Industry and Parliament Trust brought together an array of parliamentarians, industry leaders and university vice chancellors for a frank and open discussion on how businesses and higher education can work together to address this problem. Although there was a general agreement around the table that a ‘skills gap’ existed amongst British graduates, there was debate about what these skills actually were and what industry itself could do to help ensure that the needs of British businesses were being met by higher education.
