Skills Minister Exclusive

Steph on Skills: Powered by Enginuity landed the interview that everyone was clamouring to secure.

Minister for Skills, Rt Hon Baroness Jacqui Smith, unveils the Government’s new plan to rejuvenate skills provision and her desire to put some ‘oomph’ into her colleagues at Westminster.

Steph and the Minister, in a no-holds-barred  40-minute conversation, talk of their passion to re-educate the media and politicians on the importance of skilling people of all ages.

Jacqui Smith talks of the UK’s ‘hideous waste of talent’, with nearly a million young people not in education, employment or training and her wish to ensure that vocational training never retreats to academia’s shadow.

Having taken time out from supporting Team UK, at the EuroSkills Finals in Herning, Denmark, the Minister tries her hand at live reporting and reveals that she even had a go at welding!

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