One in three young people aged between 16 and 24 have now been out of work for more than six months according to a TUC analysis of official Government statistics released today. There are now 366,000 young people who have been unemployed for more than six months.
This is pretty grim news, and doesn’t look like improving any time soon. So what can be done about it? Not a lot, perhaps, in the short term.
But are our schools, colleges and universities turning out young people equipped for the world of work? Seems to me there are too many young people leaving school with appalling levels of literacy and numeracy.
And what about all of those ludicrous ‘degrees’ now available in nonsense subjects? What good are they to employers or prospective employees?
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