Skills minister Nick Bowles has announced an overhaul of the delivery of technical education in the UK.
The overhaul will be introduced to create a more skilled workforce in the future and will include an introduction of new courses and a focus on creating skilled workers.
An independent report into technical education, chaired by Lord Sainsbury, prompted the government to develop a 鈥淪kills Plan鈥� to tackle the current education system, which was labelled 鈥渙utdated鈥�.
In order to produce a more modern and skilled workforce the Skills Plan suggests introducing 20,000 new courses provided by 160 organisations, which will offer 15 routes into industry.
Boles said: 鈥淏ritain has all the ingredients needed to compete with other skilled nations, but we must create a technical education system that can harness that talent.鈥�
Collaboration between the government and the education system has been suggested to make sure young people collect the skills they need for the roles available.
Boles added: 鈥淭his cannot be the government鈥檚 job alone; we must work with employers and post-16 providers to unlock the potential in this country.鈥�
The Skills Plan鈥檚 proposed routes into technical careers will be available from 2019 for students who have finished their GCSEs.