The government has announced a second wave of University Technical Colleges. Five exist already and 13 more will join those ranks and offer a new kind of education.
I am anxious that when wave three is announced, next year, we will have one of these colleges in Birkenhead.
For most of my time as MP I have been conscious of how we fail many young people by offering school courses which bore them. I had long talks with Mrs T trying to persuade her to establish a...