{"id":21341,"date":"2017-03-24T13:46:05","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T13:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=21341"},"modified":"2017-03-24T13:46:05","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T13:46:05","slug":"ill-fight-apprenticeships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/24\/ill-fight-apprenticeships\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ll Fight for our Apprenticeships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u2018Tories in London have turned their backs on apprenticeships \u2013 I will fight to overturn this decision\u2019 \u2013 Si\u00f4n Simon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Si\u00f4n Simon, Labour\u2019s candidate for West Midlands Mayor, is to lead the fightback against the Tory government\u2019s decision to deny further education colleges in the West Midlands the right and the funding to deliver apprenticeships.<\/p>\n<p>The government has refused to grant permission and funding for 13 further education colleges across the West Midlands to provide apprenticeships to young people.<\/p>\n<p>Details have emerged following last Tuesday\u2019s publication of the Register of Apprenticeship Training Providers by the government. Only providers on the register can secure the funding to provide apprenticeships.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mr Simon said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis decision will all but end technical education for young people in the West Midlands as we know it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c13 colleges, and many companies &#8211; good quality training providers, from across the West Midlands will be blocked from receiving the funding for apprenticeships. But not if I have anything to do with it. We must get this decision overturned.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The Tories in London have turned their backs on apprenticeships \u2013 I will fight to overturn this decision\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Tories in London have turned their backs on apprenticeships \u2013 I will fight to overturn this decision\u2019 \u2013 Si\u00f4n Simon Si\u00f4n Simon, Labour\u2019s candidate for West Midlands Mayor, is to lead the fightback against the Tory government\u2019s decision to deny further education colleges in the West Midlands the right and the funding to deliver apprenticeships. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,37,3,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-local-news","category-news","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}