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13 March 2017

BPIF Member leads call to NI Executive to invest in skills

BPIF Member leads call to NI Executive to invest in skills

Gavin Killen, MD at Nuprint Technologies has called for a fully functioning Northern Ireland Executive to focus on delivering further investment for developing skills.

Speaking on the BBC's Inside Business programme (Radio Ulster, Sunday 12th March) Gavin Killen commented:

"We've the highest uptake of people leaving school, going to university, but we have the lowest level of provision," he said.

"Every year, a third of our young people leave the province and we're then left with the people at the other end who are either failed or failed by education.

"So this needs to be addressed and this needs to be a critical thing for our executive."

 

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