Tom Greatrex
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(11 years, 2 months ago)
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Matthew Hancock
National apprenticeship week is all about celebrating exactly the sort of people my hon. Friend mentions.
Tom Greatrex (Rutherglen and Hamilton West) (Lab/Co-op)
Following on from the question asked by my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Edgbaston (Ms Stuart), will the Minister reiterate the importance of ensuring proper awareness of apprenticeships in schools and beyond as an alternative? That is a recommendation of the Richard review, and it is vital if we are to see the take-up of apprenticeships and for them to be taken seriously.
Matthew Hancock
The new norm set out by the Prime Minister—that young people go into either an apprenticeship or university—is an important step. On the implementation of schools’ statutory duties, Ofsted has said that that will be a priority in how it assesses schools, and that is important. Some schools do brilliantly, but I want all of them to come up to scratch.