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Apprenticeships

October 2025

  • Teacher at a further education college teaching in a classroom

    Adult education should be for life, not just a job

  • Student using spirit level in bricklaying vocational school

    The Guardian view on post-16 education: colleges need attention, but the latest proposals are a mixed bag

September 2025

  • A hi-tech classroom

    Starmer’s further education plans augur well, but the policy detail will be telling

  • Heather Stewart

    Economics viewpoint
    Apprenticeships have collapsed in England – Labour needs to fine-tune the solution, fast

    Heather Stewart

August 2025

  • female plumber on site<br>a mid adult female plumber is installing a new radiator into a property undergoing refurbishment. The floorboards are raised with new paperwork shown , and she is tightening the valve on the new radiator. She is wearing work trousers , and tool belt . In the background more work tools can be seen as is an exposed brick wall .

    The Guardian view on construction workers: the country needs more of them, fast

    Editorial: Historical neglect of vocational training means the sector has a mountain to climb if government housebuilding and infrastructure targets are to be met

June 2025

  • Worker on a production line at a factory

    UK government unveils £275m boost to training and apprenticeships in England

    Labour makes funding centrepiece of its industrial strategy in bid to counter Reform’s surge in so-called red wall

May 2025

  • A young man operates the controls of a commuter train on the Tarka Valley railway in Devon.

    Minimum age for train drivers to be lowered to 18 in Great Britain

    Move prompted by looming retirement crisis would help ensure consistent, reliable services

February 2025

  • Emmanuel Macron at the AI summit in Paris. Keir Starmer did not attend

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    UK politics: No 10 says it did not sign AI declaration as it did not reflect policy on ‘opportunity and security’ – as it happened

    UK failed to sign agreement at end of Paris summit, along with the US

January 2025

  • A contractors roadworks warning sign in a rural residential street. Keep left sign and reels of cable in the background<br>EK68G9 A contractors roadworks warning sign in a rural residential street. Keep left sign and reels of cable in the background

    Warning of ‘skills chasm’ amid huge UK regional divide in qualifications

    Learning and Work Institute says 71% of Londoners and 65% of adults in Scotland will have degree by 2035, compared with 29% in East Yorkshire

October 2024

  • an apprentice working on a boiler under instruction

    UK loses out on £19bn in annual GDP growth due to lack of social mobility

  • The New York stock exchange

    Jane Street Capital: the trader paying its interns more than Keir Starmer

September 2024

  • a Job Centre Plus

    ‘People’s futures on the line’ amid surge in youth unemployment, unions warn

    Statistics show 16 to 24-year-olds out of work at highest level since pandemic, a rise of almost 50% in two years

June 2024

  • A worker preparing a battery at Envision’s gigafactory in Sunderland

    UK manufacturers expecting boost in second half of 2024

  • Kenan Malik

    The affluent can have their souls enriched at university, so why not the poor as well?

    Kenan Malik

May 2024

  • Gaby Hinsliff

    It’s the Tories who broke Britain, but now they want teenagers to pay for it

    Gaby Hinsliff
    Cutting degrees to pay for more apprenticeships is plain barmy – just look at the facts and ask yourself who this is aimed at, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
  • Rishi Sunak in a white hard hat and yellow hi-vis vest

    Sunak pledges to replace ‘rip-off’ degrees with skilled apprenticeships

    Tory policy would be funded by scrapping courses with high drop-out rates and low job progression
  • Billie Eilish at the 96th Annual Oscars held at Ovation Hollywood in Los Angeles.

    Brief letters
    Billie Eilish and Becky Hill’s grim take on growing up in today’s world

    Brief letters: Pop stars’ angst | Palestinian olive oil | Garlic-less greengrocer | Euan Blair’s riches | Little carbon footprints

March 2024

  • Children eating school lunch

    There’s no such thing as a free lunch for schools – but bring on the Toynbee Glee Scale for Ofsted

    Letters: Jess Hindes says any new government planning to increase free school meals needs to pay for that, Yvonne Williams extols the benefits of further education, and Dr Helen Care suggests implementing a glee scale for schools

December 2023

  • A young man loads a bucket of crabs off a fishing trawler

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Minnows into seadogs: inside England’s new fishing apprenticeship

    A recruiting crisis in the fishing industry has inspired a pioneering new initiative in south Devon

August 2023

  • Keir Starmer

    Keir Starmer: I wouldn’t be able to go to university today

    Labour leader says sluggish economy has driven up prices and is holding back students and apprentices
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