ABC Breakfast | 27 January 2016
Over the next week, students across the country will head back to school to start the new year.
And as teenagers reach their final school years, many hear the same message: ‘put your head down, study hard, go to university’.
But there’s a growing push back that says that university isn’t always the answer.
Nicholas Wyman, CEO of the Institute for Workplace Skills and Innovation, has spent several years looking at how governments around the world tackle apprenticeships and technical training.
He’s written a new book called Job U, and he joins Fran Kelly on RN Breakfast.
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Nicholas Wyman is a speaker and expert on applying real-world solutions to the challenges companies face in finding skilled employees. He is CEO of the Institute for Workplace Skills and Innovation, which develops mentoring programs for corporations and places people in apprenticeship and training programs globally. He has an MBA and has studied at Harvard Business School and the Kennedy School of Government. 
