Co-funding issue? Are employers interested?

There is an interesting article in the Times Higher Educational Supplement website about whether or not employers are actually receptive and interested in the ideas of co-funding which have been proposed and promulgated by this government. The article poses many interesting questions, among them what employers know about vocational degrees, which does not seem to be much, according to the article.

Yet this co-funding option is one of the fundamental tenets of the governments elq proclamation; what is it doing to see to it that employers themselves are educated as to the merits/demerits of the co-funding system.

Employers of all sizes of enterprise are likely to be asking the question, what can co-funding do for me, what are the tax breaks involved, can my company afford it, what will it mean in terms of human resources, increased productivity, what will it mean to the bottom line of my business?

So far the government has not got in touch with the employers to answer these important and many other important questions.

This is why the elq situation seems to me at best "half-baked" but why not go the whole hog and say, as I am sure Dustin Hoffman did in the "Graduate" that in fact the whole elq idea is "Fully baked". Evidently this government does not believe in doing its research and is hoping that the good fairy will wave her magic wand and that employers will get interested in co-funding.