Gordon Brown: Apprentices are key to the future.

Gordon Brown meets apprentices and families at the Oxford Bus Company.

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[Matty841]

If apprenticeships are the key to the future then why have I struggled to find anyone willing to take me on in a few trades such as electrician and plumbing.

Surely it should be made easier for people willing to learn to actually be able to do it rather than struggle to find anywhere or fight against 100's of people for one position within a company.

Same old Labour drivel!

[helloberksaidbob]

Affordable housing?

You mean blocks of flats, which few first-time buyers want to live in.

Improve education?

You lot want to make exams 'less stressful', ie easier.

Some sections of language GCSEs are now multiple choice, while oral exams will no longer be taped and sent to exam boards but will be 'assessed by the teacher'.

You also attack faith schools that select pupils by ability, claiming that there's corruption going on with the purely voluntary fees.

Vote Labour?

No thanks.

[lopzilla]

If you want excellent training leave the UK, learn German and

study in Germany. There you will find a nation devoted to manufacturing and Technical Education. The German government are very caring towards young people. As an MD of a family business I can speak from experience.

[fuglyno1]

get lost mate, i don't believe you. my experience of school and college is the work i put in is what i'm getting out. my school drastically improved post 1997. it was a dump until 2001-2, when i arrived. i know because my brother suffered in it. better off on benefits?? if you have the grades from the work you put in in school or college you can pursue any career you want. laziness! get off your backside, move out of town - get a job! get training! its there if you have the balls!

[fuglyno1]

i agree labours going a bit potty, but look - i grew up during tony blairs government and my school went from a dump to something good in those years. this government isn't as much the problem as a general disintigration in traditional family values and discipline. if you have those things you can achieve anything through the school's, college's and uni's of todays britain. there's nothing wrong with exams or teaching - just in discipline and respect for education. i'm at uni now and i know!

[callmewilson]

Apprentices are key to the future, yeah right? they have disappeared left right and centre under you lot, you've cut tons of services, I got laid of college once you people cut the funding, my quality of education back when I was at school declined after 1997, no one of my friends from college or school have any occupation including me, I'm better off on benefits then any job I could get. Britain will never have skilled workers like in countries like china/japan/south korea, we will never macth.

[mattbbuck]

cinvince me better gordon

[chris37uk]

This is very good indeed. I cast my mind back to the 1980's and apprenticeships were practically impossible to get in this country.