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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Eleni Courea Political correspondent

Sunak pledges to replace ‘rip-off’ degrees with skilled apprenticeships

Rishi Sunak in a white hard hat and yellow hi-vis vest
The Conservatives claim to have delivered 5.8m apprenticeships since 2010, but the number of people starting apprenticeships in England is in decline. Photograph: Lee Smith/AFP/Getty Images

Rishi Sunak has promised to create 100,000 high-skilled apprenticeships a year by scrapping “rip-off degrees” if he wins the general election.

In the latest of a flurry of announcements as the Conservatives try to narrow Labour’s 20-point poll lead, the party pledged to replace “low-quality” university degrees with apprenticeships.

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