I took that suggestion away and tested it with university colleagues, and they were split roughly 50:50. The critical point about graduate apprenticeships is not their name but the place that they hold in the landscape. Stephen Kerr touched, rightly, on parity of esteem, but I want to see the graduate apprenticeship model improved. We currently have a group, led by Steve Decent, the principal at Glasgow Caledonian University, looking at how we further develop the graduate apprenticeship model and how we expand that offering as part of the overall package.

Stephen Kerr makes a very good point about parity of esteem. The issue is also about read-across. We need to ensure that there is a cohesion to the offering of foundation apprenticeships, modern apprenticeships and graduate apprenticeships, so that we capture the maximum number of young people who want to go down those pathways and that we ensure that it is the right pathway for them.