Mr. Tim Conlon:

I would have thought so. It is complicated. At what stage in one's career does one make a choice about one's future career? We see a challenge, in terms of access and progression in higher education, in respect of students who do not make the appropriate course choices and drop out. There should be step-downs and other options. To engage too soon is a challenge but as others have said, it is most important to have a range of options and information available for people to inform them in the choices that they make. For this apprenticeship programme, it is about telling people that these are pathways into apprenticeship that can lead on to further and higher education and about giving them that as a career choice.