Skills for workers
A future Labour government would set up a University for Industry accessible via satellite television and interactive cable networks to homes and workplaces, the party said. Courses, designed to bridge the 'huge skills gap', would be more vocational than those of the Open University and would be funded by a levy on companies that failed to train their workers.
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