00:00What I want is a Britain where people are treated with the dignity that they deserve
00:05for making different choices. Choices our country needs. Choices we should value.
00:11Choices that deserve our respect.
00:14And so...
00:20While you will never hear me denigrate the aspiration to go to university,
00:27I don't think the way we currently measure success in education,
00:33that ambition to get 50% of kids to uni,
00:37I don't think that's right for our time.
00:41Because...
00:41Because...
00:46If you're a kid, or a parent of a kid, who chooses an apprenticeship,
00:53what does it say to you?
00:55Do we genuinely, as a country, afford them the same respect?
01:01Because we should.
01:04But I can't help feeling that my dad was right.
01:08So conference today, I can announce,
01:11we will scrap that target and replace it with a new ambition,
01:15that two-thirds of our children should go either to university,
01:18or take a gold standard apprenticeship.
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