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Is the government missing its own point?

Clipped to the Drawing Board by Adam Crighton

A recurring theme in the government's skills strategy is that much of Britain's future national prosperity will depend on our wits, our imagination and our creativity. We have to grow a "knowledge economy", in which skills and knowhow, rather than the attributes once needed for mass production, are paramount.

Do ministers believe this? When it comes to giving out the hard cash, do they follow through from all their speeches and policy papers? Some of those in the creative industries are not convinced. When it comes, for instance, to expanding the number of apprenticeships, they suspect that ministers are still more likely to put their money into older, "safer" sectors of the economy.

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Wednesday 4 June, 2008 12:10 PM

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