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Originally Posted by Dallas
I hear what you say, but you only have to look at the NHS, the specialised doctors/consultants who come from abroad, without them where would we be?
It depends which side of the table you are sitting, are you a manufacturer/employer, or a skilled or non skilled employee/non employed?  |
I am actually from the former group in that until taking early (voluntary) retirement last August, I recruited and lead teams of top-end professional designers, developers, project mangers etc. during a fruitful 35+ year career. The engineers I have worked with have been of the highest calibre that you will fnd anywhere in the world. I also have extensive contacts in industry.
The "lack of skill availability" is a common excuse used to justify exporting jobs and poor business performance across the UK. It gives job exporting in order to employ offshore cheap labour a more acceptable face.
As for the medical profession, one needs to look at why so few youngsters are going into medicine to become doctors and nurses - it is by design through raising the entry requirements so high that very few are taken on the higher-education programmes. This is driven by budgets as opposed to inherent skills issues.