Warning of ‘skills chasm’ amid huge UK regional divide in qualifications

Learning and Work Institute says 71% of Londoners and 65% of adults in Scotland will have degree by 2035, compared with 29% in East Yorkshire

Economic growth in the UK risks being held back by a skills chasm" between regions, as London and the south-east suck in highly qualified workers, according to a report by the Learning and Work Institute.

The gap between high- and low-skilled areas of the UK is already wider than in many comparable countries and is forecast to widen, the thinktank says.