He called for a joined-up approach with the department of education to address the problem of lower educational achievement.
Here are two further examples that underline the fact that the jobs problem is partly a talent problem that no educational institution has a handle on.
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The problem starts with an educational system that stresses rote learning instead of creativity.
Perhaps the real problem is the traditional educational environment where many children rot of boredom and lack of physical activity.
The chief problem is that children's educational attainments are falling, even as more money is being lavished on the schools.
Malaysia's problem is that it lacks the necessary educational foundations to develop modern Islamic thought.
Local EIS secretary Andrew Stewart said the basic problem was that the contract focused on financial considerations not educational ones and consultation with schools was inadequate.
The 35-member commission called for government, educational and private sector action to help alleviate the IT work shortage problem and suggested better advertising of IT jobs and opportunities in all areas through a variety of programs, including ones such as VTIP.
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In the comings months, the Center's research and educational efforts will begin to multiply as it focuses more attention onto this problem, which is expected to begin garnering national-level media and political attention.
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Frank Windsor, director of educational telecommunications at New Hampshire Public Television in Durham, is working on the problem.
At the heart of almost all of these issues is the problem of scale: of finding ways to make high-quality educational resources--whether it's brilliant teachers, innovative lesson plans or inspiring new teaching methods--reach not just a handful of students in a single classroom but hundreds of millions of students around the globe.
The problem is global (true), and the "root causes" include low educational achievement (true, just don't mention the teachers unions) and not enough retraining.
The problem is, as they state, research has crystallized a third component that is essential to educational policy.
With regards to educational development, the programme has created learning opportunities for socially disadvantaged adults and thus helped to solve the problem of illiteracy, unemployment and limited productivity among this target group.
The problem, of course, is that the public is still using institutional prestige as a proxy for educational quality.
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This means we can argue that poverty really is the fundamental problem with schools but that other factors, like teacher quality, can make the effects of poverty on educational outcomes far worse or alleviate those problems to some degree.
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