Middle classes urged to consider an apprenticeship after A-levels
The Times says middle-class parents should open their minds to apprenticeships when their children receive their A-level results tomorrow, Gavin Williamson has said.
The education secretary previously criticised “inbuilt snobbishness” towards further education and said some families expected that their children would go to university as a “rite of passage”.
The number of school leavers applying for university has risen by 10 per cent in a year and the number of courses available through clearing at selective universities has fallen by a third.
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