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Originally Posted by jonbxx
As an aside, my thinking is that if this country is short of a certain skill but using immigrants is a political hot potato, we should be training up home grown talent and making training easy by dropping tuition fees for designated courses.
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Home grown talent should always be preferred and apprenticeships are making a comeback all but slowly.
The immigration for skills being a hot potato was a fact but within mostly the building industry where employers were giving preference to labour from eastern europe as freedom of movement was a good excuse to get cheap labour.
What people seem to forget was that the whole push by the labour government to get school leavers into University education was not to raise the standard of education in this country but to reduce unemployment figures during their term of office at the time. It made them look good.
They were the party to introduce tuition fees as well in 1998.