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Government’s transport apprenticeship drive must focus on quality not quantity, warns IET

The Government’s new transport skills strategy, which sets out how it will create 30,000 apprenticeships in the road and rail sector by 2020, must focus on quality and not just be a numbers game, warns the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).

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Baroness Sharp: Government apprenticeship ambitions ‘are not enough’ to tackle UK’s skills gap

Lib Dem peer, Baroness Sharp warns ahead of her House of Lords debate, that the “twin challenges of poor productivity and needing to upskill‘ an ageing pollution will not be addressed through increased apprenticeships alone.

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