Following the Chancellor’s spending review one of the DfES’ new Public Sector Service Agreement targets is:
improve the basic skills of 2.25 million adults between the launch of Skills for Life in 2001 and 2010 and reduce by at least 40 per cent the number of adults in the workforce who lack NVQ 2 or equivalent qualifications by 2010.
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