- Mon Mar 24, 2014 12:57 am
#364489
You could probably make a decent case for taking it away from individual firms, which must have varied enormously in the quality of what they did. But as you say, it's dishonest to suggest it all dropped away because of a fetish over university.
I can recall members of my family working in our butcher's shop and also doing some day release stuff at the Tech. Don't think they thought of that as apprenticeship. How they must look back and wish the Coalition had been around to liberate them.
This is a good link.
https://fullfact.org/education/apprenti ... bour-30026" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Look at those over 25s doing apprenticeships and all those who were already working where they do the apprenticeship.
The government aren't even passing the test of their own Richards Review, which sought to get the focus on "true apprenticeships".
Note how he talks up engineers and all. No mention of the biggest provider of apprenticeships- Morrison's.
We used to call those "jobs".
I can recall members of my family working in our butcher's shop and also doing some day release stuff at the Tech. Don't think they thought of that as apprenticeship. How they must look back and wish the Coalition had been around to liberate them.
This is a good link.
https://fullfact.org/education/apprenti ... bour-30026" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Look at those over 25s doing apprenticeships and all those who were already working where they do the apprenticeship.
The government aren't even passing the test of their own Richards Review, which sought to get the focus on "true apprenticeships".
Note how he talks up engineers and all. No mention of the biggest provider of apprenticeships- Morrison's.
We used to call those "jobs".