The government is to legislate to oblige state schools to inform students not only approximately university options but approximately vocational choices such as apprenticeships (Report,18 January). Nicky Morgan, the education secretary, or blames the prvious Labour government’s target of getting 50% of young people into higher education as responsible for “snobbery approximately vocational choices. Political and official memories are often conveniently short. Nicky Morgan’s Tory predecessor as education secretary abolished the careers service a few years ago and threw the responsibility,unfunded, on to schools.
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Source: theguardian.com