Is the UK’s approach to apprenticeships failing the levelling up agenda?

Monday, 3rd October | 11.30 – 12.30

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The UK needs a skills agenda to boost productivity, create green jobs, drive innovation and ease the burden on taxpayers. Should there be more vocational pathways which offer more opportunity for social mobility? Is more focus needed on upskilling and reskilling to build the industries of the future? As well as reform, do we need a cultural shift that sees apprenticeships enjoy the same social status as degrees?

Speakers:

John O’Connell (Chair), Chief Executive, TaxPayers’ Alliance

Chris Clarkson MP

Rt Hon Robert Halfon MP

Jasmine Hudson, Chief People Officer, Mitie

Rt Hon Lord Willetts FRS, President, Resolution Foundation

Rob Wilson, Social Mobility Commissioner