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Apprenticeships: Policy context

12 mins read Education
As part of a wider drive to improve the status of vocational training, successive governments in recent years have developed policies to boost the number and quality of apprenticeship places.

After years in the policy backwaters, the 2012 Richard Review made a series of recommendations for reinvigorating apprenticeships. The government's response the following year outlined how the review reforms would be delivered and set an ambitious target to create three million apprenticeships by 2020.

Latest Department for Education statistics shows that at the end of 2017 the government was half way towards hitting this target. However, not all of the 1.5 million new apprentices are young people - DfE analysis shows that around one in four apprenticeships are filled by 16- to 18-year-olds.

The government introduced higher apprenticeships in 2015 to encourage more young people to consider apprenticeships as an alternative to university - and the following year published the Post-16 Skills Plan, which set out a strategy to improve the quality of training and expand the range of apprenticeships.

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