WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?

[Stanley]

See THIS report on youth unemployment.
The experts are talking about a "lost generation" as more than one million under-24-year-olds are left in limbo, without a job or a training course that should lead them to one. Five young people currently in that situation told us how they are dealing with the challenge.
This is well worth a read. I can't stress too much that this is a disaster that is happening now!

[PanBiker]

I still think the push to send all kids to university for a degree and a big debt is one of the big bogeys in the room. Bring back proper 5 year college courses for training into skilled trades, and proper apprenticeships, we still need thousands of folk in them. They are actually the cohort of workers that make the country work. Electricians, builders, plumbers, plasterers, drain engineers, mechanical engineers. and the hundreds of other trades that don't need a degree. I think you will probably get my drift. Of course there is a place for higher degree education but not for the masses if the courses that many do wont provide guaranteed work. I can definitely state that if you are a decent joiner, roofer, electrician or plumber you will never be short of work.

The biology degree guy that got the last IT job that I applied for is proof that any degree wont do. He got the job, spent a lot of money and the project failed, the council abandoned the plan and got nothing apart from a massive loss.