The Government need to take action on four issues, the first of which is the skills shortage.

If we ever climb out of the current recession, the skills shortage in the industry will be a major problem.

Because of a skills shortage in these areas, technical education was fast tracked.

Wages are rising by 10-15 percent as a result of skill shortage.

It seems to be short-termist, as the local skills shortage will get worse.

Clearly, the recession has had a significant impact on the labour market, but there are still skills shortages in some key areas, including management.

Large companies claim there is a skills shortage with regard to programming talent.

We also know the tourism industry has skills shortages in key areas, such as management, catering and customer service.

In this case, skill shortages did fuel a small growth in higher education.

Today it is perfectly possible to have high unemployment coupled with skill shortages.