Great Britain: the government commits to boosting apprentices and female participation in the transport sector

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The UK Minister for Transport has unveiled a new strategy requiring companies who tender for transport infrastructure building projects to create apprenticeships and recruit women.
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30,000 new apprenticeships in the rail and road sector by 2020: that is the goal the UK Department of Transport set at the end of last week. With David Cameron making apprenticeships his own particular warhorse, and targeting 3 million apprenticeships by 2020, his Minister for Transport, who manages billions of pounds worth of road and rail contracts, has decided to do his bit too. “These apprenticeship targets are to be written into contracts delivering the government’s record rail and road in

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