'Teach students to sell' says Sir Terry
Wales' richest business man says universities are failing to give students the essential skill of selling. He told ITV Wales Business Correspondent, Carole Green, how he tackles the skill shortage.
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'Please, get the basics right'
Gareth Jenkins is the managing director of toolmaking service FSG Tool and Die in Llantrisant, which has trained hundreds of young engineers. He says basic education skills, such as reading, writing and mathematics, are fundamental to success and is imploring schools to get the basics right.
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'Young people lack right skills'
Huw Evans, OBE, Chair of the review of qualifications says that employers large and small recognised that young people were well qualified. But he says: "sometimes they lack the kind of skill set that [employers] would expect."
Wales could develop its own distinct school exams
by Nick Powell
The Welsh Government's review of qualifications for 14 to 19-year-olds could lead to a very different set of exams sat by pupils in Wales.
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