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The Government accepts the higher skills ambitions for 2020 set out in the Leitch Review. The report identifies worsening employment rates and low social mobility for the poorly qualified, despite the UK's recent strong economic performance and narrowing of the productivity gap with key comparator countries.
Improvements in all these areas are increasingly driven by skills. The long-term challenge for the UK is to increase its prosperity through higher productivity and employment at a time when the global economy is changing rapidly. These global changes are increasing the number of high skilled jobs and increasing skills demands within most existing jobs.
The Government accepts the higher skills ambitions for 2020 set out in the Leitch Review. The Government is already investing heavily in skills to deliver the current set of challenging skills targets. Achieving these targets is a precondition for any higher ambitions.
They will set the foundation from which to build. Governemnt will consider how best to achieve the Leitch ambitions and implement its recommendations alongside the level of resources it will allocate to the, as part of the 2007 CSR process. | 
