'I'm more excited about this than the yellow buses'
manchestereveningnews.co.ukAndy Burnham has rolled out a crucial part of his plan to change education for young people in Greater Manchester. At Rayner Stephens High School in Tameside on Friday (September 20), the mayor launched the ‘Beeline’ service - an online platform that helps young people find jobs and career advice.
The tool is a part of the roll-out of the Manchester Baccalaureate - or MBacc - that is supposed to offer kids who don’t want to go to university an alternative route into key industries for the city-region. READ NEXT: Police want to speak to this man after brutal punch attack at busy train station Mr Burnham said: “Education has been organised around the university route for too long.
Kids who want technical qualifications to move into work have found they’re left fending for themselves. It’s wrong. “Often the advice they get is outdated.
Beeline is giving them a window into the world of work in Greater Manchester.” He continued: “I think young people in Greater Manchester can see the skyscrapers but they can’t see how they might move towards those places and work there.
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