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Skills are on the move, The Times

Skills are on the move, The Times

03 April 2008

The Times comments on Future Flows, a report on immigration compiled for Harvey Nash by the Centre for Economics and Business Research. The report predicts that skilled migrant workers will contribute more than ₤77 billion to the UK economy by 2012.

John Philpott, Chief Economist at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, says: “We need people right across the professional piste. We need to hire the skills although they don’t all necessarily need to work here. There is also a need for engineering, science and maths graduates. And a shortage of people to fill management jobs of various kinds, including project management skills.

“We won’t be able to rely on a steady supply of workers from Eastern Europe because, as their economies flourish and it becomes easier to find jobs at home, the numbers seeking to emigrate will fall.”