Lifetime Skills Guarantee" for the over 18s
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Boris Johnson has announced that a new “lifetime skills guarantee” from by the government will offer a fully-funded college course to all people over the age of 18 in England who do not hold an A-level or equivalent qualification. The prime minister said that the government would make higher education loans more flexible, to allow people to “space out their study across their lifetimes”. He acknowledged that although some jobs would fall away, he wanted people to take advantage of “new opportunities opening up with dizzying speed”. He said that the pandemic had “massively accelerated” changes to the world of work, and made training gaps “painfully apparent”, adding that funding changes could help end the “bogus distinction” between academic and vocational learning. Speaking at a further education college in Exeter, Mr Johnson said the government cannot “save every job” amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
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