Only Primary Education Needed by a Fifth of UK Jobs

A fifth of UK Jobs Required Only Primary Education

Study found that 22% of UK jobs demanded only primary education, against less than 5% in Germany and Sweden
 From The Guardian

CIPD said that 30% of workers were overqualified for their jobs.

The UK has a higher proportion of low-skilled jobs than any country in the OECD except Spain, with more than one in five roles requiring no more than primary education, it has been claimed.

The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) said that 30% of workers were overqualified for their jobs, and there were far fewer graduate jobs than graduates, "meaning that too many people's skills are being under-utilised in the economy".

The research commissioned by the CIPD found that 22% of UK jobs required no more than primary education, compared with less than 5% in Germany and Sweden. It said this had a led to an increase in in-work poverty and a huge benefits bill.

The institute said businesses had been given conflicting messages by successive governments which had "in practice encouraged businesses down the low road of competition based on low cost, while also exhorting businesses to take the high road of innovation, efficiency and higher skills". It said the issues were "major factors in the UK's poor productivity levels", and called for a workplace commission to redress what it said were three decades of misaligned skills policy.

Its chief executive, Peter Cheese, said: "We've been down the road of simply increasing the supply of skills without increasing UK productivity or the number of skilled jobs in the economy. We now need to improve skills utilisation and stimulate demand for higher level skills through increasing the number of higher skilled roles available."

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