Steph McGovern

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The Rest Is Money · 305. The Apprentice Unicorn - Euan Blair on rewiring investment and training · 16 Aug 2026 podcast

Ewan, great to have you here.

Thanks for joining us.

Um, it is of course today, the day we're recording this, A-level Results Day.

So lots of headlines during the rounds about, you know, boys beating girls, record number of people accepted to university.

And obviously, your business uh has mainly been about getting school leavers into apprenticeships.

How do you feel hearing this news?

More people going to uni than ever before.

Um, does it depress you?

Yeah, yeah, and and you know, you know I agree on that.

But what do you think then is the is the main reason why we don't have more people doing apprenticeships?

Is it that there's not enough young people wanting to do them?

Is that there's not enough companies wanting apprenticeships, uh apprentices or have the means to do it?

Is it the bureaucracy around it?

Like what's been the biggest barrier, do you think?

So then if the government are trying to tackle this, which, you know, we've heard the new Prime Minister Andy Burnham talk about the grad cat being just as important as the hard hat, which is, you know, music to to people like you and I and Robert Sears.

But what do they need to do to make this happen?

So the so the companies would be getting someone for free?

isn't that dangerous in the sense of companies then might just think, right, we're getting someone for free, we'll we'll just get them doing anything.

It might not be structured enough, it might be That's why

That's

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