While employers must share some of the responsibility for problems with technical training, we have laid much of the blame at the door of government.
Jon Yates was until recently a special adviser at the Department for Education (DfE). Here he explains why technical education receives so little attention from Whitehall. The education debate in the UK focuses far too much on schools and not enough on colleges, which is a problem as the top priority by far should be…
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