
“There are good universities, for example, Birmingham City and Aston, working with Jobcentre Plus to help unemployed and underemployed graduates.
However, this illustrates the problem and shows that some think a university education is not the holy grail.
Safaraz further said that he is encouraged that new Prime Minister Liz Truss positively mentioned apprenticeships during the recent hustings tour.
He also hopes that the new education secretary Kit Malthouse, Jacob Rees-Mogg, the new secretary of state for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy and Simon Clarke, who has cabinet responsibility for Leveling Up, will all recognise the importance of apprenticeships.