Reigniting calls for a single cross-government strategy on training and apprenticeships, AELP chief executive Graham Hoyle said while the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) are focused on getting people into "sustainable employment", the education system is not.
Speaking at a Social Market Foundation fringe event at the Liberal Democrat Party Conference, Hoyle said the fixation on academic qualifications and the route to university was alienating half of young people.
"Interestingly, BIS and the Skills Funding Agency are using the term ‘sustainable employment’ and that has not been there before. DWP also talks about this as part of the Work Programme," he said. "The DfE has never heard of the term. The DfE, which has responsibility for statutory employment, quite frankly has yet to grasp the fact that nearly all of their charges will spend nearly all of their life in a place called work. This is not being grasped by the education system in this country.
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