The Reluctant Recruits
Presented by John Vaizey
British boardrooms contain only half as many graduates as those in other industrialised countries and the proportion of university leavers going into industry has been dropping steadily in recent years. Last month the cbi launched a major scheme to ' sell ' industry to schoolchildren.
Why do so few of our top brains go into productive industry? What effect is this having on our economic performance?
Producer MICHAEL GREEN BBC Manchester