Apprenticeships failing young people in UK service economy

Posted on 7 Nov 2013 by Tim Brown

A new paper, The Road Less Travelled? Improving the apprenticeship pathway for young people, published today (7 November) by The Work Foundation calls for a fundamental reform of apprenticeships in the UK.

It reveals that the current system – designed when manufacturing and production were the dominant industries – needs a radical overhaul if it is to provide young people with strong vocational pathways into the labour market and help tackle the UK’s youth unemployment crisis. The analysis finds that the current model is not functioning as…

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