How to count training, and explain the results

There' a rather curious thing about our attitudes to training.  On the one hand, an endless mantra about a high-skill economy, and how we need to push up skills training.  On the other hand we seem not to care very much about how we should be measuring training so that we understand better what we do and don't know about it.  We tend to use very crude measures which tell us about the proportion of people participating over a given period, and not much else. How there's a very welcome contribution to the training debate, from Francis Green and colleagues at LLAKES,  which goes well beyond this.  It looks at…
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