Nick Clegg says skills delivery landscape is very confusing to youngsters

Posted on 8 Feb 2013

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg says that the government and quangos needs to stop tinkering with a "patchwork system" of apprenticeships and post-school options, get employers into schools and simplify the apprenticeship framework for youngsters.

Speaking at the University of Sheffield AMRC with Boeing, one of the High Value Manufacturing Catapult centres, he told TM that “the system and the patchwork of qualifications and quangos that have come and gone over the years is very confusing, and extremely confusing for a youngster having to make choices in their mid-teens to…

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