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GOVERNMENT figures revealed by Labour yesterday show it is twice as hard for young people to get an apprenticeship than to get a university place.
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills statistics show that the number of under-25s starting apprenticeships has fallen by 11,324 under the Con-Dem government.
That means youngsters are three times more likely to get a place at Oxford than an apprenticeship with Rolls-Royce and twice as likely to earn a first-class honours degree as land a traineeship with Jaguar Land Rover.
The Defence Universities Alliance is a bit to co-opt higher education into the wider drive to war — we should resist as earlier generations of scientists did, argue say ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT of SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
