Kids can make a Beeline into world of work

Burnham 'more excited about online skills programme than yellow buses'

- CHARLOTTE HALL

ANDY 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, 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.

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 Often the advice they get is outdated.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.