EXCLUSIVE Education secretary Alan Johnson has delivered an unequivocal "no" to the question of whether companies should be allowed to award their own qualifications to employees, amid the ongoing skills crisis. Speaking exclusively to Personnel Today, Johnson said he was unable to see how employers accrediting their own qualifications would help provide the required transferable skills highlighted by the Leitch Review. Johnson said that although training in the workplace should be accredited, it was not up to employers to do so. "Lots of [workplace] training could be accredited and that's what [the government] has to work at. We need to ensure that the skills people are getting are transferable this is what the skills pledge is all about," he said. This puts him in direct conflict with the CBI, which believes companies should be able to award their own qualifications. Employers spend £33bn every year on training, but only one pound in three is spent on training towards a...

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