This report was commissioned by the UK Commission for Employment and Skills to contribute to the evidence base for Skills for Jobs: Today and Tomorrow, the National Strategic Skills Audit for England 2010. It sets out the overall findings of the project undertaken by SAMI Consulting Limited.

This report was commissioned by the UK Commission for Employment and Skills to contribute
to the evidence base for Skills for Jobs: Today and Tomorrow, the National Strategic Skills Audit

In order to enhance strategic human resource management, and thereby improve European competitiveness in the global
economy, the European Commission has pointed to the importance of developing better methods and tools to anticipate trends

The scenario project aims to develop a tool to improve the understanding of vocational
education and training systems in their economic-technological, employment-labour and
training-knowledge environments. The development of different scenarios and the indication

We present four scenarios for the sector in 20 years’ time.

The work on scenarios of the cellule prospective began during latter stages of Jacques Delors’
leadership of the European Commission. The purpose of the endeavour was to arrive at
scenarios that would provide a series of coherent and plausible images of how Europe may