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Debate between Rosie Cooper and Nick Boles
Monday 19th January 2015

(9 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Nick Boles Portrait Nick Boles
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I thank my hon. Friend for organising this visit, which was fascinating and very encouraging. Perhaps we all understand why there might be a bias in favour of university in the city of Oxford, but nevertheless a huge number of young people in my hon. Friend’s constituency decide, quite rightly, that they can benefit even more from an apprenticeship. We are investing in a marketing campaign to ensure that their teachers and parents have the same understanding of the value of an apprenticeship as many enlightened young people do themselves.

Rosie Cooper Portrait Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire) (Lab)
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5. Whether her Department monitors local education authorities’ adherence to its statutory guidance on school organisation.