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He predicted that the changes would create 40,000 jobs by 2011; 20,000 permanent jobs and as many apprenticeships.
The worst scandal is that so many "apprenticeships" are 12-week courses from private training companies, with no jobs at the end.
Many employers say the Labor Department's six criteria need updating because they are based on a Supreme Court decision from 1947, when many apprenticeships were for blue-collar production work.
Literacy and numeracy should be embedded, and there should be a concluding test of competence – like a driving test – in place of the present box-ticking regime that many apprenticeships never even complete.
One of these was that Labour would spend £710m in the first year of a new government to ensure as many apprenticeships as university entries – even though Labour's pledge was only that it would be in place before 2025.
One of the Conservative claims to be challenged was that £710m would go to ensure as many apprenticeships as university entries in the first year of a new Labour government.
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In the early 1970s and from 1985 to 1995 many apprenticeship training positions could not be filled.
Apprenticeships are one way out of that trap, but our report finds that in many cases apprenticeships mirror and perpetuate wider discrimination.
"At present, too many new apprenticeships are low-skilled and … too few new apprentices are school-leavers trying to get their first job," he added.
"At present, too many new apprenticeships are low skilled and taken by older people already in work with their employer".
These distortions are diminishing the work done by the many traditional apprenticeship providers, such as Seta, where young trainees have very good prospects of being employed.
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