Vince Cable slams “weak” apprenticeship courses

Posted on 25 May 2012

Business Secretary Vince Cable has lambasted the Government's apprenticeship programme for wasting taxpayers’ money.

Visiting Siemens’ gas turbine plant with Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg in Berlin yesterday, the ministers were hoping to learn from a German industrial strategy that produces around 1.5 million apprentices every year. “Youngsters taking the vocational route have been let down by weak courses in the past which wasted their time and taxpayers’ money.…

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