Gordon Brown visited Rolls-Royce’s aerospace training centre in Derby yesterday where he unveiled a new £140 million apprenticeship expansion programme which will see an extra 35,000 people take up vocational-based qualifications.
As part of his regional tour of the UK which today sees a cabinet meeting taking place in Liverpool, the PM was in the Midlands yesterday (Wednesday) to announce that the extra apprenticeships phased-in over this year and next would bring the total level of participants to above 250,000. Last year 224,000 embarked on such…
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