The BBC report on Labour leader Ed Miliband’s new plans to introduce “technical degrees”

Labour leader Ed Miliband is to propose “technical degrees” – putting vocational subjects on an equal footing with traditional academic degrees.

In a speech to an education charity, Mr Miliband will say he will work with universities and employers to create such high-status qualifications.

Labour has called for more options for what it calls the “forgotten 50%” who do not go to university…..

…..Ahead of Mr Miliband’s speech to the Sutton Trust, Conservative skills and enterprise minister Matthew Hancock said youth unemployment had risen under Labour and “far too many of our children didn’t get the training they needed to succeed”.

He said the current government was “leading a skills revolution” with 1.8 million new apprenticeships.

Read the full story by Sean Coughlan here

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