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 on Friday, 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.
At Rayner Stephens High School in Tameside on Friday, 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.
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00:00I've been in New York and part of my job means that I go to places like that to try and persuade people to come and invest here.
00:09And we just had confirmation in the last week that the Bank of New York, BNY Mellon they're called,
00:15are going to make Greater Manchester one of their six global strategic hubs around the world, which is amazing for us.
00:24But I was on this visit where another massive player like that in New York are saying now that they want to follow that and do something similar.
00:33They want to have a thousand new jobs over the next three or four years and we've just agreed that with them as I've been in New York this week.
00:42So I just wanted to think about that for a minute. There are amazing opportunities that are coming through here.
00:49The reason they want that is they actually said to me we want to recruit people perhaps who have not been on the university route
00:55because they prefer sometimes to take people and mould them themselves.
01:00And they've looked at Greater Manchester and said well we believe there's a lot of talent there that we can access that really would fit what we want to do as an organisation.
01:08And that's why they're coming here and those opportunities are absolutely there and achievable for all of you.