Industrial strategy must consider the workers too | Letters

Reactions to the UK’s new industrial strategy and to the 59% fall in apprentice numbersWhile I welcome the publication of the government’s industrial strategy (An industrial strategy ‘for exciting times’, 27 November), I have spotted three major omissions. First, the need for a more highly trained and skilled workforce is clear and accepted all round. Why then does the Department for Education continue to fund schools in large part on the basis of numbers retained in the