Apprenticeships get a glow up
Practical skills-based training gets a boost, but management schemes are under threat
Practical skills-based training gets a boost, but management schemes are under threat

Vocational training must be improved without undermining universities

Freeing ourselves of these labels might help young people to think more creatively about the future

How can we share the light of our own lives with the wider world?

We need young people to gain experience that makes the world of work intelligible and builds skills and confidence

A ‘skills gap’ is not some blight on free enterprise that someone else will fix

Governments should build on, not rip up, what went before — the new skills strategy does just that