The city would control Whitehall's local £500m apprenticeship budget and its £200m housing budget.
The youth guarantee would require national governments to ensure that all people under 25 are offered a good job, apprenticeship, trainee scheme or further education course within four months of leaving employment or education.
He has been serving one of the longest apprenticeships in world history and there is now a growing log-jam of apprentices to his own apprenticeship.
Surely, Antony, such a lengthy, unorthodox apprenticeship should be celebrated?
I'm delighted that Arts Council England have done more on their apprenticeship scheme, but I think a lot more museums, galleries, arts companies need to pay not just lip service to or tick the box of diversity, but embed themselves in a much wider community to increase access".
Under the plans, those aged between 18 and 21 will be barred from claiming benefit unless they agree to start an apprenticeship or complete community work.
In reality there was a fall in the number of apprenticeships created in 2013-14, and of the 147,300 increase in apprenticeship starts between 2009-10 and 2013-14, 103,700 were taken up by people aged 25 and over.
The EEF itself had already called for the apprenticeship rate to be scrapped.
It fell to the manufacturers' organisation, the EEF, to emphasise the longer-term gains of addressing an entrenched lack of respect for the apprenticeship path.
An apprenticeship framework that's being developed for the children's workforce, including residential care home staff, is expected to address career progression.
The apprenticeship programme is expected to be popular because it is employer-led and will allow providers to grow and expand their own workforce.
