Top 10 reasons to carry on learning
The following 10 reasons why you should carry on learning are based on the changes that are happening in the jobs market today and in the future:
- The number of jobs that require higher skills and qualifications keeps on rising.
- The number of jobs for people without skills and qualifications keeps falling.
- The higher the qualification level, the higher the average earnings.
- The pay gap between those with qualifications and those without is growing wider.
- People with qualifications are less likely to be unemployed than those without qualifications.
- Most people are expected to do more and know more in the workplace today.
- Employers are looking for evidence of ‘willingness to learn’ when recruiting.
- Employers invest the most training in those who already have some skills and qualifications.
- Learning is a skill in itself. Learning today makes future learning easier. It helps workers cope with constant change.
- Better levels of qualification in the local workforce will help to attract new employers and new industries to Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire, where jobs in traditional industries are being lost.
