Wyre Forest MP hails apprenticeships as 'win' for employees and employers (From Kidderminster Shuttle)
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Wyre Forest MP hails apprenticeships as 'win' for employees and employers
10:10am Thursday 14th March 2013 in News
WYRE Forest’s MP has backed National Apprenticeship Week by describing the training route as “a win” for both employees and their employers.
Conservative Mark Garnier said he supported “the Prime Minister’s vision” for it to become the new norm for young people to either go to university or start an apprenticeship.
Across Wyre Forest, 1,080 people started apprenticeships in the academic year 2011-12 and another 310 have started in the first quarter of this academic year.
Mr Garnier said that marked a 135 per cent increase compared to Labour’s last year in office. The Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) has released a forecast that apprenticeships completed over the next decade could help boost productivity by up to £3.4 billion a year by 2022.
Mr Garnier said: “Conservatives in Government are investing in apprenticeships to ensure that the country has the skills it needs to compete in the world and people across Wyre Forest are benefitting from this.
“I know from work that I have seen in Wyre Forest that apprenticeships are a win for the individual and a win for the business.
“We currently have a record number of apprentices in Wyre Forest and even more young people will have an opportunity to meet apprenticeship providers at our next jobs fair on June 7.”
National Apprenticeship Week began on Monday and runs until tomorrow.
Comments(7)
Shibdrift
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10:34am Fri 15 Mar 13
Shibdrift
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10:34am Fri 15 Mar 13
Shibdrift
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10:36am Fri 15 Mar 13
Shibdrift
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10:37am Fri 15 Mar 13
THE PROOF BEING ???
Stephen Brown
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2:25pm Fri 15 Mar 13
Spin spin spin...
stour67
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4:34pm Mon 18 Mar 13
anies do not have to pay min wage,so there only paying about £2,50hr instead of £5hr or more, so it's only being done as cheap labour as more often or not there's no job at the end,and get rid of them,then start again.
Shibdrift says...
10:33am Fri 15 Mar 13
Where in these figures does the closing down of ATL at Hartlebury fit in?!
Dozens of apprentices left high and dry, who knows how much taxpayers money (Skills Funding Agency) gone and just written off, and MP's who just wash over it all as 'one of those things'.
Let's have a public answer as to why this happened, how the money was just given away, what will be done to stop this from happening in future, and who was accountable for this mess in the first place.
Accountability - that means one of these highly paid civil servants actually doing something useful for the taxpayer - or just doing what they are paid for would be a start!!!
If I gave all that money away on behalf of my company without any return, I'd be down the road before I could say "But my moat needed cleaning"!!!!!
This is not just a local issue, as ATL were nationwide, so hundreds were affected.
So before we all hail this win, let's consider the youngsters who were dumped on and are still looking for employment.
Mr Garnier - your comments please.