In 2017, the Sutton Trust released some remarkable statistics: 97 per cent of teachers said that essential skills like team-work, leadership, presenting and listening were as important for future success as academic achievement.
Furthermore, 35 per cent said that they saw these skills as being more important than academic results for future success.
The Sutton Trust results are reflective of an interesting wider shift. For a long time, employers have been calling for these essential skills. In 1989, the Confederation for British Industry (CBI) called for these skills to be at the heart of learning. Since 2008, they have annually reviewed the attitudes of employers about school-leavers and found continued concerns about the gap between the skills they need and those they see. But it is compelling now to see that the value of these skills is being recognised much more widely.
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