Brown calls for more apprentices
Prime minister Gordon Brown has called on employers to take on more apprentices to tackle the UK's skills shortage.
Brown said he wanted one in five young people to take on apprenticeships in 10 years' time, rather than the current rate of one in 15.
In a speech to business leaders in London, he announced plans to increase the number of apprenticeships by 90,000 by 2013.
"Today a British prime minister has to worry about the global skills race because the nation that shows it can bring out the best in all its people will be the great success story of the coming decades," he said.
"So it is time for a wake-up call for young people, employees and employers; that we now summon ourselves to a new national effort and mobilisation to win the new skills race."
Post Date: January 29th, 2008