{"id":4342,"date":"2020-09-29T21:01:37","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T21:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worlduniversitydirectory.com\/edu\/2020\/09\/29\/covid-has-uncovered-weaknesses-of-uk-labour-market-education-johnson-says-2\/"},"modified":"2020-09-29T21:09:13","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T21:09:13","slug":"covid-has-uncovered-weaknesses-of-uk-labour-market-education-johnson-says-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worlduniversitydirectory.com\/edu\/covid-has-uncovered-weaknesses-of-uk-labour-market-education-johnson-says-2\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID has uncovered weaknesses of UK labour market, education, Johnson says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<article dir=\"ltr\">\n<div>\n<figure>\n<p><figcaption>British Prime Minister Boris Johnson visists Exeter School in Exeter, Britain September 29, 2020. Finnbarr Webster\/Pool by way of REUTERS<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>LONDON (Reuters) &#8211; Britain\u2019s economic system is underproductive and its weaknesses had been uncovered by the COVID disaster, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Tuesday as he launched modern measures to attempt to toughen ability ranges within the personnel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur economic system has been shaken by COVID, and within the hand-to-mouth scrabblings of the pandemic, the shortcomings of our labour market and our training scheme had been painfully obvious,\u201d Johnson said in a speech.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Reporting by Man Faulconbridge, William James and Estelle Shirbon, modifying by Elizabeth Piper<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span data-name=\"for-phone-only\">for-phone-simplest<\/span><span data-name=\"for-tablet-portrait-up\">for-capsule-portrait-up<\/span><span data-name=\"for-tablet-landscape-up\">for-capsule-landscape-up<\/span><span data-name=\"for-desktop-up\">for-desktop-up<\/span><span data-name=\"for-wide-desktop-up\">for-huge-desktop-up<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/in.reuters.com\/article\/us-health-coronavirus-britain-economy-idINKBN26K1W5\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Read Extra<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Prime Minister Boris Johnson visists Exeter College in Exeter, Britain September 29, 2020. Finnbarr Webster\/Pool via REUTERSLONDON (Reuters) &#8211; Britain\u2019s economy is underproductive and its weaknesses have been exposed by the COVID crisis, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Tuesday as he announced new measures to try to improve skill levels in the workforce.\u201cOur&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[3908,343],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worlduniversitydirectory.com\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4342"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worlduniversitydirectory.com\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worlduniversitydirectory.com\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worlduniversitydirectory.com\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worlduniversitydirectory.com\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/worlduniversitydirectory.com\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4353,"href":"https:\/\/worlduniversitydirectory.com\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4342\/revisions\/4353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worlduniversitydirectory.com\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worlduniversitydirectory.com\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worlduniversitydirectory.com\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worlduniversitydirectory.com\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4342"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worlduniversitydirectory.com\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=4342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}