Boles told him not to assume that new cuts would fall "entirely" on FE colleges, and rebuffed his concerns about the aforementioned 24% cut, bigging up apprenticeships and apparently claiming that FE represents something of "lower value".
He's clean, he's tidy, and he's served a big, long apprenticeship to get this far.
At fifty-four, hashasynthesizeded the music of his generation in an almost Jonesian way, combining big-band apprenticeship with avant-garde curiosity.
He's pledging to protect green spaces like Calderstones Park, increase the NHS budget by £8bn a year with much emphasis on mental health, work to ensure Liverpool benefits from any devolved power - especially ensuring connection to HS2 and HS3 - and continue "the biggest expansion of apprenticeships since the 1950s".
"We've committed to creating the biggest and best apprenticeship programme our country has ever seen, with funding in place for 360,000 apprenticeships this year alone.
"They are all having to pull out loans".Politicians from all the big parties agree: apprenticeships are a terrific thing.
Why cut the big rise in apprenticeships, just as the young are leaving school to sign on?
On moving people into work we welcome the big expansion in apprenticeships but not the decision to abolish the Educational Maintenance Allowance.
Yet Mr Cameron's more striking proposals, including some lifted from rival parties, were aimed at the sorts of people Tories have often neglected.George Osborne, the Tory chancellor, had earlier promised a big expansion in apprenticeships; to this Mr Cameron added a promise to end exploitative zero-hours contracts.
The biggest is the apprenticeship levy, a whopping £3bn a year, followed by stamp duty on buy-to-let homes – about £1bn a year - a social care levy that could bring in another £2bn and an end to the freeze on fuel duty levy: £2.3bn".
