If he's serious about this, he'd focus as much on creating non-university routes into the service sector instead of drawing this vocational/academic line that is rooted in a view of the economy that is 50 years out of date

Chris Dillow

If this had been policy in the 70s (as it partly was), towns would have produced lots of mining engineers & metallurgists just before pits & steelworks closed. As the yanks say, you should skate to where the puck's going, not to where it is. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...