Michael Peters

Kingsbridge

Company Director

I have been involved in one of the seminars with eSkills UK discussing the new Diploma in IT. I agree that small businesses should be involved, but from my experience they are likely to be ignored. I went to a seminar at Exeter University representing my company, the FSB and the Institution of Analysts and Programmers and I haven't heard from them again. You thought if they were really interested in working with small business then they would have bothered to have contacted me again. You notice that your list of companies contains only large organisations. I asked the representative from IBM how many of the people from the Diploma would likely get places/jobs in their company. The answer was not positive.
Perhaps eSkills UK should be talking to companies that are likely to provide the jobs. It certainly won't be the large companies in the city as they are currently shedding jobs. More likely the millions of small employers in the UK.