High-skilled apprenticeships have high returns – but funding via a ‘crackdown’ on higher education courses is challenging

The Conservative Party has announced a plan to raise the number of people in ‘high-skilled apprenticeships’ by 100,000 per year by the end of the next parliament. These additional apprenticeships are to be offered as an alternative to university places that would be axed due to the previously announced ‘crackdown on rip-off university degrees’.