Skills for jobs

Posted on 13 May 2011 by The Manufacturer

Indictment of the status of vocational education in Britain and mass of youth unemployment prompt £60m of new government funding. Business welcomes government intentions.

Education Secretary, Michael Gove says current attitudes toward vocational education are failing Britain and its young people. In a presentation to the House of Commons yesterday Gove referred to the recent Wolf Report which investigated the state of education in the UK saying that its findings showed hundreds of thousands of young people are being…

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