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People - including graduates - are failing to get jobs or even keep the ones they have because they lack communication skills, the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) said yesterday.
This situation is contrasted with that in the US where in business conferences, "its noticeable how much more confidence people have [because] there are more stand-up presentations in the class than over here".
The REC says that there should be some analysis of the more advanced communication skills needed in a service-driven economy and offer better training in these skills to British youngsters to help encourage more business start-ups.
England dropped from third place to 19th in an international league table of childrens literacy levels, according to the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study.
This contributed to the government recently announcing plans to raise the school leaving age to 18 and increase the number of skills training courses to over seven million in 2008, including 3.5 million covering literacy and numeracy.
Tom Hadley, director of external relations at the REC, said: "In a lot of careers its important how you communicate orally and theres almost no training about that.
"Theres a need to look at the needs for specific skills in what is a changing labour market and that needs to be cultivated a little more at university."
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