Tories want to swap ‘rip-off’ degrees for apprenticeships

Summary

保守党は教育政策に焦点を当て、若者をだまし取る大学を狙い、次期議會末までに10万人の新しい見習い制度の枠を推進すると約束しました。経済記者ニール・マクドナルドは、見習い制度の現状と課題を分析し、2017年からの減少を指摘しています。また、大学からの見返りが低いとされる学位コースを廃止することで、見習い制度を資金提供する8850万ポンドを確保する計画も説明されています。一方、大学側は学位の価値を主張するデータを発表し、議論が分裂しています。

Takeaways

• 📚 保守党は教育政策に焦点を当てており、若者に不正な大学を狙い、次期議會の終わりまでに10万箇所の新しい見習い制度を推進する予定です。
• 📉 見習い制度は、若者を雇用につながり、生産性向上に役立ち、経済を向上させるための重要な手段ですが、近年は低迷しています。
• 💼 2017年に導入された見習い制度の政策は、うまく機能していませんでした。多くの企業は手続きが煩雑で管理が困難と感じており、多くの会社は見習い制度を利用しません。
• 🎓 保守党は、大学の一部科目を廃止することで、見習い制度を資金提供する8850万ポンドを確保しようとしていますが、大学側は学位の価値を主張しています。
• 🤹‍♂️ 保守党党主席リチャード・ホールデンは、現代のサーカススキルなどの学位を例に挙げ、そのような科目は必要ないと述べています。
• 🏆 英国のスポーツビジネスは優れている分野ですが、スポーツ関連の学位が見習い制度に適しているかどうかは疑問視されています。
• 🔄 見習い制度は資金が不十分で、企業がトレジャーリーに35億ポンドを返金しているという問題もあります。
• 🎓 労働党のディアン・アボットは、ハックニー選挙区での候補を強行し、党の指導層との間で混乱が生じています。
• 🗳️ スコットランドでは、SNSP党首ジョン・スウィニーは、同僚のiPadのデータ使用料に関する問題に直面しており、選挙戦略に影響を与える可能性があります。
• 🏛️ スコットランド議会は、元保健大臣のマイケル・マッの罰則に関する投票を行い、スウィニーと同僚の議員は棄権しました。
• 🗳️ 選挙戦は予測不可能な要素が多々ありますが、重要なのは状況に応じて適切に対応することです。

Q & A

保守党はなぜ大学を狙っているのですか？

保守党は、若者たちをだまし取る大学を狙い、次期議會の終わりまでに10万以上の新しい見習い制度の場所へとシフトを促進する教育政策に焦点を当てています。

保守党が提唱する新しい見習い制度の場所はなぜ必要ですか？

見習い制度は若者を雇用につながし、生産性を高め、経済を活性化するのに不可欠ですが、近年見習い制度はトラブルに遭遇しており、新たに場所が必要とされています。

2010年代のイギリスで見習い制度の開始はどのように変化しましたか？

2010年代前半には見習い制度の開始が増加していましたが、2017年以降は減少しており、現在の年間の総数は33万7,000で、過去最高値の3分の1未満となっています。

2017年に導入された見習い制度に関連する問題は何ですか？

2017年に導入された見習い制度のリービは、大企業が支払う料金で、訓練を支援するための大きな資金を創出する予定でしたが、多くのビジネス組織は管理が難しく、多くの企業が面倒なので手を出さないと指摘しています。

見習い制度の参加者の半分はなぜ25歳以上になっていますか？

企業が既存の労働者を再教育するのではなく、新しい仕事を作るための見習い制度が存在するという事実から、多くの見習い制度が25歳以上の人々に行く傾向があります。

保守党はどのようにして見習い制度を資金提供する予定ですか？

彼らは大学の一部の課程を廃止することで8850万ポンドを節約できると考えており、彼らはそれらの課程が学生の収益を向上させないと主張しています。

大学側はどのように反論していますか？

大学側は、大学学位を持つ者が最初の10年間の働きの中で学位を取得することで賢明であることを示すデータを発表し、30歳までに卒業生の方が非卒業生よりも1年あたり8000ポンド多く得ていると主張しています。

保守党はなぜ特定の大学課程をだまし取るとして非難していますか？

彼らは、特定の大学課程が学生の収益を向上させず、彼らをだまし取っていると主張しています。例えば、現代のサーカススキルに関する学位プログラムが挙げられます。

保守党は見習い制度の質をどのように向上させていますか？

彼らは低賃金の仕事に人々を配置するのではなく、より高品質で良い仕事を得るためにリードするより高いレベルの見習い制度を推進しています。

労働党のディアン・アボットはなぜ議席を争うと述べましたか？

ディアン・アボットは、労働党の高層による選挙候補者の選定プロセスに関して混乱を招き、選挙に立候補する意欲を表明しました。

スコットランド国民党のジョン・スウィニーはどのようにして選挙キャンペーンを脱線させましたか？

ジョン・スウィニーは友人のマイケル・マッの膨大なiPad通信料とそれに関連する問題について質問に答えることにより、選挙キャンペーンを脱線させました。

スコットランド議會はマイケル・マッに対するどのような処分を決定しましたか？

スコットランド議會は、マイケル・マッに対して27日の休職処分を決定し、ジョン・スウィニーとすべてのMSPは棄権しました。

Outlines

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📚 保守党の教育政策と大学改革

保守党は教育政策に焦点を当て、大学をターゲットに若者からの不当な料金を要求し、次期議會の終わりまでに10万件の新しい見習い制度の枠を創出することを約束しました。経済記者ニール・マクドナルドは、見習い制度が若者の就労や生産性向上、経済の向上に欠かせない要因であると指摘していますが、近年見習い制度は苦しい状況にあります。2017年には見習い制度を促進する政策が導入されましたが、その結果は期待に反しており、多くの企業は手続きが煩雑で管理が困難と感じ、見習い制度の新規参入が減少しています。保守党は大学の一部科目を廃止することで、この制度を資金調達する計画ですが、大学側は学位を取得することで将来的に得られる利益が大きいと反論しています。

05:01

🤔 見習い制度の現状と大学との関連性

見習い制度は高品質なものが必要ですが、現在の制度はうまく機能しておらず、企業は未使用の資金を財政に返還しています。保守党は大学の一部科目を廃止することで見習い制度を強化する資金を調達する予定ですが、大学側は学位を取得することで将来的に得られる利益が大きいと主張しています。これにより、多くの学生が科目を変更する可能性があり、保守党が期待する節約が実現しにくい可能性があります。また、保守党の党主席は学位を提供する価値が低いと思われる科目をいくつか指摘していますが、具体的な科目名は明言していません。

10:02

🗳️ 労働党の選挙戦略と混乱

労働党は選挙戦略に混乱が生じています。ディアン・アボットは選挙に立候補する意向を表明しましたが、労働党指導部との間で合意が成立していない模様です。また、他の候補者にも問題が発生しており、一部の候補者が選挙に参加するかどうかが不透明になっています。これは選挙戦術に影響を与える可能性があり、労働党の支持層に不安をもたらしています。

🏛️ スコットランド国民党的選挙戦略と問題

スコットランド国民党も選挙戦術に問題が生じています。ジョン・スウィニーは友人のマイケル・マッのiPadのデータ使用料の問題について曖昧な姿勢をとられており、これは選挙戦術に影響を与える可能性があります。また、国民党は議會での投票において罰則を科すことを拒否しており、これは選挙戦術に悪影響を及ぼす可能性があります。

Keywords

💡保守党

保守党は英国の政党の一つであり、このビデオのテーマに関連して、彼らは教育政策に焦点を当てており、大学をターゲットに若者をだますと主張しています。彼らは次期国会の終わりまでに新しい学徒制度の枠を10万箇所創設することを約束しています。ビデオでは彼らが大学を非難し、彼らが提供する代替案がどのように機能するかについて議論しています。

💡学徒制度

学徒制度は若い人々に就労機会を提供し、彼らの生産性を高めるための重要な教育形式です。ビデオでは、保守党が10万箇所の新しい学徒制度枠を作成することを提唱しており、これは若者の雇用を促進し経済を活性化するのに役立つとされています。しかし、学徒制度は最近困難に直面しており、2017年からの受講者数の減少が示されています。

💡大学

ビデオでは大学が提供する教育の価値について議論されています。保守党はいくつかの大学課程が学生の収益を高める効果がなく、彼らをだましていると非難しています。一方、大学側は学位を持つことが将来的に得る収益を示すデータを提供し、大学教育の価値を主張しています。

💡学徒制度のリービ

学徒制度のリービは、大企業が支払う料金であり、学徒制度のトレーニングを支援するためです。しかし、多くのビジネス組織は管理が難しく、多くの企業が関与しないと主張しています。ビデオではこの政策がうまく機能していないと示唆されており、それが学徒制度の受講者数を減少させた要因の1つとされています。

💡経済政策

ビデオでは経済政策が教育に与える影響について触れられています。保守党は教育を通じて経済を活性化し、若者の生産性向上に貢献することを目指しています。彼らの計画は学徒制度の枠を増やすことによって経済をレベルアップさせることに重点を置いています。

💡教育の平等化

ビデオでは教育の平等化が重要なテーマとして取り上げられています。保守党は大学教育だけでなく、学徒制度を通じて若者にも機会を提供し、経済参加を促すことを目指しています。彼らの計画は経済のギャップを埋め、より多くの若者を教育と就労の機会にアクセス可能にすることを意図しています。

💡政策の失敗

ビデオでは2017年に導入された学徒制度の政策が失敗したと示唆されています。その結果、学徒制度の受講者数は減少しており、多くの企業はこの制度を利用していません。この失敗は保守党が新しい枠を作成する必要性を強調する理由の1つとなっています。

💡教育の選択肢

ビデオでは教育の選択肢が議論されています。保守党は大学教育だけではなく、学徒制度を通じて若者にも選択肢を提供することを提唱しています。彼らは若者が学問と実践を組み合わせることを望むと示しており、学徒制度がそのような機会を提供するのに適していると主張しています。

💡政治的紛争

ビデオでは労働党内部での政治的紛争が取り上げられています。ディアン・アボットが選挙に立候補するかどうかが争われており、党内での対立が表面化しています。この紛争は労働党の選挙戦略に影響を与える可能性があり、選挙の結果に関与する重要な要素となっています。

💡選挙戦略

ビデオでは各政党の選挙戦略が議論されています。保守党は教育政策を通じて若者層を獲得しようとしており、労働党は内部の紛争に苦慮しています。スコットランドではSMPのリーダーが友人のスキャンダルに対処する必要があり、選挙キャンペーンが脱線しています。選挙戦略は各党のメッセージを伝える上で重要な役割を果たしており、選挙の結果に直接的な影響を与えます。

Highlights

The Conservatives are focusing on education policy, promising to target universities perceived as overcharging students and to promote apprenticeships.

A plan to create 100,000 new apprenticeship places by the end of the next Parliament is proposed by the Conservatives.

Apprenticeships have been in decline since 2017, with the current total at 337,000, down by a third from previous years.

The Conservatives' plan aims to increase the number of apprenticeships to 440,000, although still below the peak in the middle of the last decade.

The introduction of the Apprenticeship Levy in 2017 has not been successful, with many businesses finding it cumbersome and difficult to administer.

Almost half of the apprenticeships are now going to people over the age of 25, suggesting companies are retraining existing workers rather than creating new jobs for young people.

The Conservatives need to find £885 million to fund the apprenticeship scheme and propose to do so by scrapping certain university courses.

UK universities counter the Conservatives' claims, releasing data showing that a degree pays off within the first 10 years of working life.

The Conservatives argue that some degree courses do not boost the earnings of students and are therefore not providing value.

Conservative Party Chairman Richard Holden criticizes a degree course in contemporary circus skills as an example of unnecessary higher education.

Holden emphasizes the need for young people to earn while they learn and criticizes the Blair-era focus on formal university degrees.

The Conservatives aim to improve the quality and standards of apprenticeships, moving away from lower-level apprenticeships.

Despite improvements, barely half of the apprenticeships are completed, raising questions about their effectiveness.

The Conservatives are criticized for a decline in apprenticeships since the introduction of the Apprenticeship Levy.

The Scottish National Party leader, John Swinney, faces scrutiny over his handling of a colleague's £1,000 data bill scandal.

Swinney's campaign is derailed by questions about his friend Michael Matheson, who lied about his holiday iPad expenses.

The Scottish Parliament votes to suspend Matheson for 27 days, with Swinney and his party abstaining from the vote.

Swinney is criticized for prioritizing loyalty to a friend over the integrity of the political process.

Transcripts

the conservatives were focusing on

education policy today promising to

Target universities that are ripping off

young people and drive a shift towards

apprenticeships with 100,000 new places

by the end of the next Parliament our

economics reporter Neil McDonald is in

The Newsroom now so Neil what is the

plan for apprenticeships well Kathy

apprenticeships are critical for getting

uh young people into work for boosting

their productivity uh helping to level

up the economy um the conservatives say

that they accept all those arguments and

that's why they're advocating the

creation of 100,000 new apprenticeship

places um however those new places are

also needed because the apprenticeship

system uh has got into some trouble in

recent years um I let me show you what's

happened to apprenticeship starts in

England in the 2010s you see how the

line goes up but actually since 2017

it's been declining current total of

337,000 a year that's actually down by a

third conservative plan takes it up to

440,000 but you see from the chart that

it's still well below the Peak from the

middle of last

decade so what's gone wrong then well in

2017 a policy was introduced to

encourage apprenticeships it has clearly

not worked out that way um the

apprenticeship Levy is a charge it's

paid by big companies creates a big uh

pot of money that's meant to fund this

type of training um a lot of business

organizations however say it's very

cumbersome uh difficult to administer

and so a lot of companies just don't

bother a lot of them also point out that

um there's now uh almost half of

apprenticeships are actually going to

people over the age of 25 and what that

suggests is that um companies are

retraining existing workers rather than

creating new jobs uh for young

people so join the dots for us from uh

apprenticeships to universities then

yeah I mean the conservatives need to

find $885 million pounds to fund the

scheme they think that they can find

that um by scrapping courses at some

universities which they say um don't

boost the earnings of the students who

take them and therefore in their words

ripping them um off um however today the

body that represents UK universities uh

struck back against that they released

data which they say shows uh that it

does pay off in the first 10 of your

working 10 years of working life to take

a degree the chart here shows you

earning for non-graduates people who

could have gone to University but didn't

the second line shows you what happens

for graduates up to about the age of 30

it's lagging at first because of course

um they're not in the workforce but by

their 30 30th birthday they're about

£8,000 a year better off now if that

analysis is correct and critically if

students think that's correct the many

of them could simply decide to switch to

different degrees maybe at different

universities and the more that that

happens happens the less likely it is

that the conservatives will be able to

generate the 900 million of savings

which they're hoping to

find Neil thanks very much well earlier

I spoke to the conservative party

chairman Richard Holden and I began by

asking him to name some degree courses

he thought were a ripoff well I I saw

one the other day for some uh

contemporary uh circus uh skills which I

thought was uh you know probably not

degree level necessary uh not something

that somebody needs to go away from home

for three years at to study and pay tens

of thousands of pounds for which if they

don't pay it back then gets picked up by

the taxpayer and I don't think where was

this degree in in circuses uh I believe

it was one of the universities in the

new universities in the southwest um and

I and it just really seems to me that

when you're looking at these things I

want I want young people to have as much

opportunity as possible really whenever

possible earn when they learn I think

there was an obsession from the sort of

Blair era of everybody being going to do

a formal sort of three or foure

University degree I don't think that's

uh really sensible idea when I talk to

young people up in my constituency and

I've run several apprenti ship fairs up

there what they really want to do often

is earn and learn at the same time but

you've named one degree in the southwest

I'm just that that doesn't seem to me

the basis for this whole policy no no

well it isn't the basis this policy

Kathy that's why I said there have been

a lot of studies which show that

actually with people going to University

studying certain certain degrees that

they're not getting actually what they

thought they were getting which is a

rout into a good graduate job afterwards

and actually but can you name any others

that's what I'm after just you know you

you've cited me fine fine you know

there's there's others we've heard about

some like football studies I can't

remember exactly where that is but

there's you know there's a lot of these

degrees which seem to be there which

aren't delivering for people and

actually could be far better cated for

by doing a degree apprenticeship or an

apprenticeship you just talked about

football studies mean Sports is one of

the areas and The Business of sport is

one of the areas in which the UK excels

I don't really buy that it is no but

well what you well you don't need to buy

it from me you can listen to the uh the

academics who've looked into this in

detail looked across the piece actually

various think tanks various academic

studies looking into different degrees

different universities and this isn't

about targeting universities as a whole

uh or about targeting individual

education establishments as a whole what

is about saying is what can we do better

what can we deliver better for young

people better for students in a way

which actually uh helps them to get more

out of life let's just look at how good

the apprenticeships are businesses say

the system is so broken that they've

ended up handing back three and a half

billion pounds to the treasury unspent

and that's the issue here what you're

offering as an alternative is not

necessarily that good I think Kathy what

you've actually saying there is actually

I think you've you you've put two things

together which is which are which are

dramatically opposed one of the things

we want to do is have really good

apprenticeships right across the piece

what businesses are saying some

businesses uh in in the older system

before we changed it before we had that

rigorous apprenticeship uh system that

we've introduced and massively expanded

is that people were using

apprenticeships as a way of putting

people on low paid work we've stopped

that from happening that's what that was

a problem in the past under the last

Labor government and we have

fundamentally changed appr friendships

just like we fundamentally improved

educate education outcomes for kids

right across the country sorry sorry

sorry but you you just blamed the last

Labor government you've been in power 14

years and since the apprenticeship Levy

was introduced which was on your watch

apprenticeships have fallen from 500,000

to around 340,000 they've Fallen by

first no no no Kathy I think if you

drill down into the figures and I know

Channel 4 viewers are always interested

in the the detail if you look at it what

we've done is we've really ciled those

level one apprenticeships that means

that that's a preg GC level

apprenticeship right which was something

which was clearly ridiculous and we've

really moved away from that we've we've

really pushed the the better and higher

level apprenti ships that's level three

apprenti ships which are a level

equivalent and also those level four

five and six appren level apprenti ships

which are those uh old hnc H&D and

degree level apprenti ships we've been

really driving quality and standards

across the board we're not but if there

such a if there's such a roaring success

why do barely half complete them no well

let's let's look into the detail of that

and that's because what we've had to

move away from is these ones which

people didn't like didn't work weren't

actually delivering for them in the

first place instead what we're moving

towards now is and we've and we've made

really significant progress in this area

is higher quality better apprenti ships

which actually lead on to uh good jobs

in the long term as a result of this

policy you suggest one in8 graduate

courses will close do you think as a

result of that universities will have to

close I don't think so I think what we'd

hoped for when we saw not a single one

well let me answer the question right I

think what we'd hoped for uh when

universities were expanded uh back in

the uh 90s and early 2000s and there's a

big expansion in them I think what we'd

hope for is real good specialization in

our University sector I think too often

what we saw is universities just trying

to get bums on seats because they got

cash through the door I want to ensure

that every young person gets the maximum

opportunity available to them uh which

also enables them wherever possible to

earn money while they're doing it

Richard Holden thanks very much thank

you very much Kathy well back to the

breaking news and the confusion over

whether the labor leadership will allow

the veteran MP Diane Abbott to be a

candidate in the general election a

short while ago she told a rally that

she will be a candidate in Hackney by

any means possible after this letter to

Gary Gibbon joins us from Westminster

Gary yes uh events moving quite fast

tonight and uh puzzling I think to uh

many in the labor party what's going on

worrying to some on the left the

leadership thought that there was a deal

uh an outline deal that uh Diane Abbott

might accept to be allowed a dignified

re-entry into the Parliamentary labor

party and in return to step down quietly

at the general election say it was all

of her own uh valtion that seems to have

blown up tonight listening to Dian

Abbott you can hear her words uh now it

sounds like uh whether it's as a labor

candidate or potentially like Jeremy

Corbin her old Ally and independent

she's going to run in this general

election listen to an now and by any

means possible I will be the candidate

for well labor at the high command level

don't seem to be quite sure at all

what's happening they're hitting the

phones trying to find out meanwhile

phones are running redh hot on the left

of the party because this had been a

very carefully run selection process of

general election candidates by K tama's

labor party and hardly any uh corite as

you might say uh uh new candidates had

come through some MPS who consider

themselves Corbin knites were running

for reelection Dian abber might have

been one of them we don't know but there

was one new candidate that had made

their way through the whole process the

candidate in chingford fiser Shaheen and

it looks tonight as though her position

is under threat because of tweets she

may have uh liked uh relating to Gaza

and another candidate uh has a question

mark next to their name today one of

those MPS a coronat MP who's trying to

get back in uh the MP for popler at s

begum there's a letter gone to the

national executive committee of the

labor party from some members in her

constituency saying we're not sure about

uh whether she's been diligent enough

hardworking enough all of this is

arousing a lot of suspicion that there

is a new layer I mean on the left they

thought there was a purge of candidates

they think there's it's gone to a last

final stage which is affecting some

sitting MPS some incoming candidates and

there's been suspicion for a while

amongst the Carbonite labor MPS that

they weren't being allowed to they being

told uh by the party HQ they put

couldn't put in their nomination papers

until the 4th of June uh normally you

put them in a bit earlier to make sure

there's no accidents you haven't put a a

mistake on the form which would

invalidate it they've been told you

can't put it in until the 4th of June

and that's made them think oh is there a

Sword of Damocles over me I was told by

one uh figure on the left there's an

awful lot of us having sleepless nights

right now well there aren't many nights

uh left but they could carry on being

Sleepless all the way to that nomination

deadline thanks Gary

Kathy well labor weren't the only party

struggling to stay on message today in

Scotland the reaction of s SMP leader

John swinny to a long running row over a

colleague's enormous iPad bill has been

threatened to derail things for his

party our Scotland correspondent

Katherine Samson has

more it's already been quite the

election Journey for John swinny out

celebrating a new Railway line this

morning his campaign messaging was being

diverted by questions about his friend

Michael Ma

he's the former Health secretary who on

a holiday to Morocco racked up an £1,000

data bill on his parliamentary iPad

repeatedly lied about it then after

sustained pressure paid the money back

and blamed his teenage boys I am a

father first and

foremost s offer the simple truth is

they were watching football

matches in a decision that stuns some in

his party John SMY kicked office

election campaign last week by refusing

to back sanctions against his friend

that have been put forward by a

cross-party committee he said the

process had been prejudiced today just

hours before a vote on those sanctions

things were looking fuzzier the

parliament's going to decide on these

issues this afternoon how are you going

to vote well all the arguments will be

set out to Parliament this afternoon how

are you going to vote and Parliament

will be able to hear how we're going to

vote later on this afternoon why can't

you tell me how you are going to vote

because because it's important that we

have a parliamentary debate debate and

we shouldn't prejudge things derailing

your whole campaign we're all talking

about Michael mat we're not talking

about what you want to talk about you

just got to be patient

Catherine back at Hollywood the Scottish

conservatives were calling for Michael

Ma's resignation a Scottish labor went

on the attack it is presiding officer

the cover up rather than the original

sin that is always the problem members

should cast their votes now as the

parliament voted to hand Michael mat a

27 suspension John swiny and all of his

msps chose to abstain if they choose to

defend him and defend the indefensible

then it will be up to the voters across

Scotland to judge on the 4th of July and

looking at the gloomy faces on the S&P

benches today I think they know what's

coming in an election timing really is

everything you just have to play the

ball as it lands I didn't I didn't this

wasn't part of my campaign plan but the

issue has arisen and have as first

Minister as leader of the Scottish

national party I have to deal with what

emerges in front of me so Michael mat

won't be returning here till at least

September in a statement he says he

regrets his actions but he will not be

resigning as an MSP and unlike at

Westminster Hollywood has no recall

process to force a

byelection in John sny's mind he's

simply been seeking fair and proper

Justice for his friend Cas you can take

a picture on the doorsteps colleagues

fighting to keep their seats could find

the public to be rather less forgiving