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The FPB supports moves to develop the nation's skills and ensure that school-leavers enter the business world with useful and valuable skills sets, and would like to see efforts made to develop key literacy and numeracy skills at an early age.
Mr Goodman went on: "Smaller businesses must be placed at the centre of plans to create a further 90,000 apprenticeships for young people by 2013."
"In the FPB's latest Referendum survey from October 2007, 62% of respondents said they wanted to see 'employability' placed at the heart of further education."
FPB member Elizabeth Wirrer, of Roy Truman Sound Services in London, found only a handful of courses catering for the sound industry. She prefers her trainees to learn on the job, and welcomed the introduction of modern apprenticeships.
"When people come and ask me how they get into the industry, I tell them to go and get a job first, and then do a course from that," she said. "I understand that they are going back to teaching skills for work, but so many of these students can't even spell, and don't get the training they need to be successful at interview."
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