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Interskills is a new service that has been set up to supply skills-training for the future. Interskills is not intending to compete with orthodox schools and universities. By and large, the latter are concerned with the technologies and skills of the agricultural and industrial revolutions, and are well placed to service the existing formal economy. Interskills is much more concerned with the skills that will be required in the new communications era that is rapidly taking shape around us. We will be specialising in two different but complementary areas --global skills and local skills. Global Skills will involve a variety of new communication and information skills that are, and will be, required on the Internet, and also new methods of distance-delivery of appropriate professional skills. Local Skills:we believe that the growth of structural unemployment in all advanced countries will necessitate the development of new sorts of "parallel" economies (probably community-based) in which an additional tranche of jobs can be created. Of these, some will involve the revival of traditional craft skills and others might well be of those services which are at present coming under great threat because of growing government deficits in almost all advanced countries. | |
Mini-articles by a variety of writers and commentators (300 words each)
Article: The New Communication Economy by Keith Hudson
Article: Communities & Co-operation by Keith Hudson
Initial Strategy
Origins and Advisory Group
E-mail k.hudson@bbcnc.org.uk
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