The UK has a poor record of providing opportunities to learn skills for the around half of young people that do not attend university. Over a third of 18-year-olds in England are not undertaking any education or training, significantly higher than in the major EU economies. Concerningly, recent trends have been in the wrong direction. The number of apprenticeship starts in England has significantly declined since the mid-2010s, when it hovered at around half a million.

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4 September 2024     Paper Number CEPOP64

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This CEP occasional paper is published under the centre's Community Wellbeing programme.