Ed Miliband speaks out
The Labour Party has called for apprenticeships to be seen as equal to university study, and that money should be invested in high quality schemes. Youth unemployment currently stands at around the 1 million mark and companies and business are urged to do something about it.
Labour leader, Ed Miliband, said: “At the moment we have a problem in this country, which is that going to university is first best and that it’s second best if you don’t.” He wants to change this stigma by creating a single application system for apprenticeships and degrees.
Miliband added: “The coalition government says the availability of apprenticeships has increased at a record rate since they came to power and at a faster rate than the last Labour government projected.”