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"en.20150210.4.2-118-000"2
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"Mr President, the word ʽapprenticeʼ comes from the Latin ‘to understand’, but I do not understand why the government of my country has allowed the number of apprenticeships in my own East of England constituency to fall by 6 000 in the last year, how four in ten firms that the government says are providing apprenticeships do not even realise they are doing so, and how almost all the previous growth in what our government calls ‘apprenticeships’ are people over 40, with 2 000 people over 60.
‘The Apprentice’ has to mean more than the name of a TV show. British companies in the CBI this month found that the low level of skills is the greatest threat to UK competitiveness. In Britain, youth unemployment is rising again, with the UK behind both France and Germany and below the European average for young people not in employment, education or training.
I am proud to have worked to get European Youth Jobs Guarantee money for Thurrock in my constituency, yet, once again, the British Government’s delay in agreeing the programme means that while Parliament today is deciding to spend 30 times more on this fund, Britain has yet to get anything.
By simply rebranding what it means to be an apprentice, the government of my own country is simply branding itself as untrustworthy. Have I made myself understood?"@en1
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