People across Heywood and Middleton will get the chance to retrain and find new, well-paid jobs as part of the Government’s new Lifetime Skills Guarantee.
The plans, unveiled by Prime Minister Boris Johnson in a speech today, will provide adults in England without an A-Level or equivalent qualifications the opportunity to take up a free, fully-funded college course.
Alongside this, the Government is also making higher education loans more flexible, allowing people to space out their study across their lifetimes and take more high-quality vocational courses.
Chris Clarkson, Conservative MP for Heywood and Middleton said: “I am pleased that this scheme has been created to help in the plan to Build Back Better across the country.”
“As the Chancellor has said, we sadly cannot save every job. This is why I welcome this announcement by the Prime Minister, developing a long-term plan to ensure that, as the nature of work changes, people here have access to gain the skills they need to find and create new and better jobs.”
“In the coming weeks I will be meeting with our local Further Education providers and when I do I will be discussing the ways in which the new Lifetime Skills Guarantee will help them provide more access to education and retraining for local people.”
As well as offering college courses from April, the Lifetime Skills Guarantee will make higher education loans more flexible, allowing young people to choose the length and type of course that is right for them. There will also be more investment in college buildings and an £8 million commitment for digital skills boot camps; expanding successful pilots in Greater Manchester and the West Midlands and introducing programmes in four new locations.
In his speech on the Lifetime Skills Guarantee, the Prime Minister said he wants to give people the skills to find and create new and better jobs, adding that the government will help them get the skills they need, transforming the foundations of the skills system so everyone has the chance to train and retrain.
