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The best apprenticeships are excellent, but there's far too many that are either bogus, and simply organisations that are simply leeching from the system to access government funding, or underachieving ones.

That's because the quality of the inputs is higher though. Surely the focus should be on the value added by the school? If you take on a higher achieving bunch of kids at age 11, it's only natural to expect them to be also higher achieving at age 16.

I suspect many 16 year olds choose additional education because see it as enhancing their life long employment opportunities. The apprenticeship scheme that is an alternative to A Levels/FE/HE is unfortunately shambolic, and offers relatively little incentive. I think the best system is the...

News to me. Educational research does not support that viewpoint.

I agree too, but over 60% of those aged 18 don't go to university.

Employers were more than happy to take pensions holidays and rebates when defined benefit schemes were performing well. Since that scenario reversed they've used employees as the fall guys, (executive pay has far outstripped performance average wage increases and company profitability). If...