Private arms companies training military recruits shows just how far the #extreme mantra’ of privatisation has gone
The Royal Navy’s recruits will continue to be trained by private companies.
The Royal Navy’s recruits will continue to be trained by private companies.
Securing an apprenticeship is now twice as hard as getting a place at university.
Without reference to how Labour intends to bring about good growth there is little point talking about training.
Working class voters, who the left is supposed to champion, want a fairer and more contributory welfare system.
Statistics show that a strong vocational education system will be required to help fill over 12 million vacancies by 2022. Of these, those caused by the retirement of the baby-boom generation will vastly outweigh those resulting from business growth.
This week is National Apprenticeship Week and Britain needs to end poor quality, low-level apprenticeships.
Ministers admit George Osborne’s trumpeted “superior” skills training programme still hasn’t started .
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.
James Mills looks at the cost of keeping EMA, against that of its replacement, and finds that the latter isn’t much cheaper, and is a lot worse, than the former