Ant Breach
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 10 Jul
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People choose a course they want to do.
They pick a university.
They go off and they study it.
What we know about people who don't go to university is they're much more likely to stay in their local area.
And nevertheless, if they can get training, particularly in specialized and rare skills, they can still have a good quality of life, high incomes, and progress in their career in their own way.
A problem with the local skill system, the non-university system, is it's not particularly tied into what the different specialisms of different local economies are.
So the argument for devolving the skills system to basically say for like sort of further education, colleges and similar and apprenticeships,
is to create more connections between local government, particularly the mayors, local employers, and then local skills providers to say, hey, what is it that businesses really need from their place?
Do some places really need welders?
Or do some places really need people who are lab technicians?
Or do some people need a completely different skill set?
oh, that's expensive to provide, we'll help pay for the colleges or unsimilar to provide more of those skills relative to other parts of the country.
We'll develop a kind of cluster of knowledge in that particular settlement so that we can then say to potential applicants, hey, here's a guarantee that if you come here and you do this kind of maybe quite strange or quite technical course, we know there's a job waiting for you on the other side of that course.
on the other side of that training and that actually we think this is a real strength for our area and you can go far while staying here where you live.
It's quite different.
I mean, people move around a lot for university at present, right?
You know, we know graduates move all over the place when they both go to university and then when they leave it as well.
I think it definitely, it's a way of kind of building on what we already have.
As I said before, you know, we can see there are kind of economic strengths in every part of the country.
We don't need every part of the country to perform
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