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In his last speech to Labour’s annual conference as party leader, Keir Starmer called for a fundamental shift in the way education in England operates. While saying he would never “denigrate the aspiration to go to university”, he said that aiming to get 50% of pupils into university was wrong and that it was finally time to show equivalent respect to apprenticeships and technical education. He says: double quotation markFor too long, we’ve built an education system around the idea that there’s only one route to success: university, a degree, a desk.
- ▪In his last speech to Labour’s annual conference as party leader, Keir Starmer called for a fundamental shift in the way education in England operates.
- ▪While saying he would never “denigrate the aspiration to go to university”, he said that aiming to get 50% of pupils into university was wrong and that it was finally time to show equivalent respect to apprenticeships and technical educatio
- ▪He says: double quotation markFor too long, we’ve built an education system around the idea that there’s only one route to success: university, a degree, a desk.
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| Publication time | Tue, 28 Jul 2026 09:26:12 GMT |
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04.16 EDTGood morning. In his last speech to Labour’s annual conference as party leader, Keir Starmer called for a fundamental shift in the way education in England operates. While saying he would never “denigrate the aspiration to go to university”, he said that aiming to get 50% of pupils into university was wrong and that it was finally time to show equivalent respect to apprenticeships and technical education. “So, today I can announce we will scrap that [50%] target and replace it with a new ambition, that two-thirds of our children should go either to university or take a gold standard apprenticeship,” Starmer said, to loud applause.So heaven knows what Starmer is thinking this morning as he hears his successor, Andy Burnham, announce his own plan for “a fundamental change to the…
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