Where do you suggest? the EU for instance? how odd, we are leaving there are we not?Last time I looked there was a great deal of training going on. Quango's all over the place supposedly offering solutions along with the few Technical Colleges that are left (having been plundered by the 'new' Universities). It used to be that the employers provided training but the rush to reduce their profits and increase taxation has had the envitable result - they can't afford to. Control has therefore gone to the centre and been distanced completely from the point of need. Now that lays bare your own OG circular argument. Bit daft to overtrain, if that is actually the case, not in my experience it isn't. But, for some daft reason they think they are too clever by half and have unrealistic expectations - what good is that? How come they don't go somewhere to get work and leave the space for those cherry-pickers?
And the reason companies are struggling isn't through Taxation as they avoid that pretty neatly, try looking at inflated Executive pay and over inflated dividends to investors.