Higher education opportunity

The local area is undersupplied with skills needed to fill roles

58% of all job postings in Basingstoke and Deane require an education level of a bachelor’s degree or higher, and 41% a level 4+.3

Employers find it difficult to recruit local people with higher level skills

This is due to a combination of factors including high employment in the borough, relatively high job density and skills shortages at level 4 and above (sub-degree through to post-graduate equivalent). 4

There are opportunities to meet local demand for higher level skills

We can build the capacity of the existing workforce given the higher than average proportion of residents qualified at level 3 (A level equivalent). 5

Local employers report higher level technical skills shortages

This is particularly in software development, cyber security, artificial intelligence technologies, digital technologies, clinical skills (including nursing), research and development and engineering. These reflect national shortage areas in science, technology engineering and mathmatics (STEM) disciplines.6