Graduates lack basic skills and are more interested in ‘what a job can do for them, not what they have to offer an employer’

The Daily Mail Andrew Levy

“Most new graduates lack even the basic skills needed for the workplace, complain major employers. More than two-thirds of bosses said they cannot handle customers while half said they cannot operate independently.Half of companies said university leavers struggle with basic English and nearly two-fifths claim they cannot do simple maths.”(more)