Amost half (44%) of employers have had to invest in remedial training for school and college leavers, according to the annual CBI/EDI education and skills survey 2011.
Of the 566 employers surveyed, nearly half (42%) are not satisfied with the basic use of English by school and college leavers, and more than one in three (35%) are concerned with the basic numeracy skills in this age group.
Employability skills are also lacking in school and college leavers. Less than one in three (31%) respondents felt that school and college leavers had adequate business and customer awareness.
More than half (55%) feel that school leavers' self-management skills are ppor.
When it comes to recruiting graduates, employability skills are the single more important consideration for 82% of businesses - yet 70% of responding employers feel that university stuadents need to do more to prepare themselves to be effective in the workplace.
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