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Vince Cable issues apprenticeships call
Business secretary Vince Cable and skills minister John Hayes have helped mark the launch of Apprenticeship Week by urging more UK firms to create opportunities.
Speaking in London, Cable reaffirmed the coalition government's commitment to work with businesses to create 100,000 more apprenticeship places by 2014. More than £1.4bn is to be invested in apprenticeships in 2011-12, which is designed to help create a "new generation" of skilled workers to drive forward economic recovery.
The government is also looking to end what it calls the "outdated values" that have caused vocational training to be seen as a less favourable option to academic study. Cable said: "Some of the most prestigious companies in England - large and small, public and private - employ apprentices and benefit from doing so.
"And 80 per cent of those who employ apprentices agree that they make the workplace more productive. I'm calling on more businesses to follow this lead." Hayes added: "Our ultimate goal remains to see apprentices achieve equivalent esteem and status with university graduates, so that a place on an apprenticeship scheme is as valued as one at a university."
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