| Issues for Consultation
- How should we develop the national framework for learning at work?
- Are the measures we propose sufficient to meet the challenge?
- What role could incentives play in encouraging investment by employers in workplace
learning?
- What contribution can businesses make to wider learning and how can we work together to do
this?
- How can we encourage employers to offer more of their employees the chance to gain
qualifications at work?
- What measures are needed to ensure that people in work have the time they need to learn?
- How can employers be encouraged to contribute to their employees' ILAs?
- What more should be done to improve learning in small firms and organisations?
- What steps could be taken to provide cover for small firms to allow employees to undertake
training?
- Are there any other steps that we could take to increase the take-up of Investors in
People?
- What measurements should be used to best assess investment in training?
- How should this information be publicised?
- Which priority skill areas should the National Skills Task Force focus on initially?
- Are there further steps we need to take to strengthen provision for basic skills?
- How can we provide basic skills to people already in work?
- Are the current support mechanisms the right ones to help raise the level and
quality of training in the workplace; and how do they fit in with Regional Development
Agencies?
- Do they have the necessary 'purchase' to change culture and attitudes, or are more
fundamental changes required?
- What should the future role of TECs be in supporting learning at work?
- Do NTOs have sufficient leverage to raise the quantity and quality of training in their
sectors?
- How can we ensure that local partners - including TECs, further and higher education,
and local authorities - work together to support enterprises in improving learning?
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