The UK Higher Education System Is Not Fit For Purpose. We Need More Apprenticeships

For young people, being successful is all too often conflated with going to university. This conveyer belt approach to education is damaging for them, and for the nation’s economy.I recently appeared on the BBC’s The Big Questions to debate whether the UK university system is fit for purpose. As someone who quit their A-levels to do an engineering apprenticeship with Michelin Tyres before going on to establish Phones4U, I gladly took the opportunity to criticise the current status qu