Starmer sets new two-thirds education target

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Sir Keir Starmer has announced Labour will aim for two-thirds of children to go to university or take a “gold standard apprenticeship”. The Prime Minister told Labour’s annual conference he would scrap the previous goal of half of young people going to university. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00What I want is a Britain where people are treated with the dignity that they deserve

00:05for making different choices. Choices our country needs. Choices we should value.

00:11Choices that deserve our respect.

00:14And so...

00:20While you will never hear me denigrate the aspiration to go to university,

00:27I don't think the way we currently measure success in education,

00:33that ambition to get 50% of kids to uni,

00:37I don't think that's right for our time.

00:41Because...

00:46If you're a kid, or a parent of a kid, who chooses an apprenticeship,

00:53what does it say to you?

00:55Do we genuinely, as a country, afford them the same respect?

01:01Because we should.

01:04But I can't help feeling that my dad was right.

01:08So conference today, I can announce,

01:11we will scrap that target and replace it with a new ambition,

01:15that two-thirds of our children should go either to university,

01:18or take a gold standard apprenticeship.

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