Today Alison Wolf wrote a piece in the FT about apprenticeships, including our polling about the public’s priorities on education spending.
We asked the public to prioritise between different possible education policies, all with major spending implications, for the next government. This is a question type that internally political parties and policy makers use quite frequently.
Apprenticeships ‘for skilled and technical work’ win by a clear margin. Apprenticeships are more than twice as popular as childcare, which has been the big focus of policy announcements and spending in recent years.
Apprenticeships are the most popular option for every social class, including AB, though most so for C2 (unsurprisingly, since they are in skilled manual work). Childcare came way behind in every social class.
