Ms Fiona Longmuir:

This is an area where we have to look outside the physics classroom. The Deputy is exactly right in saying it is all well and good having a great physics teacher but that this will not solve the problem of how to get young people into apprenticeships. We need to consider the likes of career guidance and make sure career guides have a good grounding in all the available areas. It is very easy to teach what you know. All teachers have come through the academic route, so they are probably less familiar with the apprenticeship route. This is improving, in that teachers and career guidance counsellors are starting to talk more about apprenticeships. Having something like Generation Apprenticeship, with one source of really good quality information, will be of great help to the career guidance counsellors.