apprenticeships
Britain needs gold standard apprenticeships
This week is National Apprenticeship Week and Britain needs to end poor quality, low-level apprenticeships.
We must do better on apprenticeships
With more than 1 million young people in UK still out of work, there is a real need to create opportunities for young people.
Half of school leavers don’t go to uni – let’s not forget them
Political debate tends to revolve around school leavers who go onto university, but there has been a lack of focus on the half of young people who don’t.
Apprenticeships must benefit the North as well as the South
National Apprenticeship week is a great opportunity to celebrate all that is good about our apprenticeships. It is imperative that the government ensure that apprenticeships are not only targeted to work for our young people, but that they provide decent, sustainable routes into employment across the UK, ensuring that our economy as a whole benefits just as much in the North as in the South.
New skills eco-system puts clear water between Labour and the tories
A new ‘skills eco system’ now puts clear water between Labour and the Tories policy of ‘pile ‘em high and sell ‘em cheap’ low grade apprenticeships.
The rise in apprenticeships is not as good as it looks
Jonathan Clifton, senior research fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research, explains why the rise in apprenticeships is not as good as it looks.