The CBI has been exploring how businesses, training providers and government might work more collaboratively to address digital skill gaps and challenges
Nine in every 10 people will have to add to their skills by 2030. The CBI has been exploring the digital dimension of the country’s skills needs.
Every business is needing to address digital skills gaps - now and in the future. With job vacancies increasing and not enough people to fill them, businesses must start investing more in internal digital upskilling and reskilling or be left behind.
In late 2020 Microsoft and Goldsmith University London published a survey that explored the state of Digital Skills in the UK1. It concluded that despite accelerated digitalisation in response to COVID-19, a clear digital skills gap persists in UK organisations. With an estimated 3 million new technology job opportunities to appear in the first half of this current decade, there is an urgent need to grow digital skills and talent. Following the release of the report, a proposal was made for the C
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