Keir Starmer scraps target for half of pupils to go to university
Sir Keir Starmer, 50 percent of the students to go to the university scrapped the target, instead of the Labor Party completed two -thirds of children or “gold standard apprenticeship” will aim to make.
The Prime Minister said he did not believe that the commitment made by Tony Blair in 1999 was “right for our time”.
Sir Keir said to the Conference of the Labor Party: “Some politicians say ‘I want every child to have the opportunities I have’.
“You hear most of them in Westminster, but that’s not me.
“What I want is a British in which people are treated with dignity to make different choices. The choices that our country needs, the elections that deserve our respect.
“And so if you will never hear the conference, the desire to go to the university, even if you will never hear the way we measure the success of education – the ambition to take 50 percent of this time to Uni – I don’t think it is right for our time, because if you are a child or a child, what do we say to a country?
“Because we have to do it, but I can’t help you feel my father is right.
“So, the conference is that we can explain that we will scrape and change this goal today, and with a new ambition that two -thirds of our children should go to university or get gold standard apprenticeship.” Worker officials could not say what the level of existing children’s levels of entering the university or called the gold standard apprenticeships.
The target will see that two -thirds of young people gain high -level skills through university, advanced education or “gold standard apprenticeship”.
Labour, next year for children between the ages of 16-19 to support approximately 20,000 students by supporting £ 800 million will allocate extra financing, he said.
Workers come while trying to reduce the number of young people who are not in employment, education or training.
On Monday, Rachel Reeves announced that it plans to offer guaranteed paid jobs to young people who demand more than 18 months.
Sir Keir and Chancellor hopes to reduce Spiraling benefit invoice by encouraging more people to work.
The Social Market Foundation, a thought -tank, welcomed the Prime Minister’s focus on apprenticeships.
However, the research director Rebecca Montacute said: “It will require a great job to ensure that it has high quality apprenticeship opportunities to meet this goal-and vitally, it should ensure that these opportunities are available not only for better families, but also for those from various pasts.”
In 1999, workers’ Prime Minister Tony Blair set a target to enter 50 percent of young adults in the “next century” higher education. The official figures show that 18 -year -old children who went to university in the UK are 36.4 percent in 2024 and fell from a summit of 38.2 percent in 2021.
Sir Keir’s speech repeated the comments of Tora former Educational Secretary Sir Gavin Williamson, who rejected Sir Tony’s target as “ridiculous ve and attacked as“ the internal Snobbishness somehow better than somehow better ”.
