Welcome to e-skills UK - e-skills UK is the Sector Skills Council for Business and Information Technology. Home page | HECSU.ac.uk. Forecasts for the UK economy. Policy reports and publications. Higher Education Statistics Agency - PIs 2009/10: Summary tables and charts. Summary of UK Performance Indicators 2009/10 This section summarises the sector-wide information for each of the indicators, and provides a comparison with the sector values from previous years, where appropriate. For previous years, please visit the summary archive. Percentage from schools and colleges in the state sector This indicator, shown in table series T1, is produced for young full-time undergraduate entrants.
The term ‘State schools or colleges’ is for all schools and colleges that are not classed as independent, this includes further education colleges and publicly funded higher education institutions. Table A [xls 25 KB] provides a time series of the percentage of young full-time first degree entrants who attended a state school or college by country of HEI attended. Sourced from Table T1a of the Performance Indicators. Percentage from NS-SEC Classes 4, 5, 6 and 7 This indicator is produced for young full-time undergraduate entrants to higher education. Full-time entrants Enquiries. British Chambers of Commerce - The Workforce Survey: Small Businesses.
The majority of the UK’s small businesses want to grow. They want to invest and take on more employees, but they are also pessimistic about the UK labour market’s skill level and flexibility. Businesses tell us that their ambition to grow will be severely frustrated by the difficulties they face in doing so. Dismissal rules are too complex, tribunal cases are endemic, and the vast majority of small firms are buying in extra external resource to ensure they are compliant with employment regulation.
The more staff they take on, the more likely they are to face claims – the risk is that one bad recruitment decision could wipe out a whole year’s profit, or worse. We recognise the Government has taken some steps towards improving the Tribunal system, but with new agency rules, parental rights and pensions changes all coming down the track before 2015, the net result for our small firms will be negative.