News: Contract Law
Government launches review of apprenticeships
29 January 2008
In an attempt to improve the UK workforce's skills base, the government has launched a review of apprenticeships.
The aim is for one in five young people to be taking an apprenticeship within ten years, and for work-based training to be accepted as a mainstream option.
More and more companies are offering work-based training, including performance management training and contract law training.
The government thinks that apprenticeships should be a key method of building the national skills base, which is seen as necessary if Britain is to remain competitive in the global economy.
"A generation ago, a British prime minister had to worry about the global arms race," said the prime minister, Gordon Brown.
"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."
