Online learning provider Learndirect claims that while Victorian school children learned the skills required to do the top jobs of the day, their 21st century counterparts are not given lessons to prepare them for today’s biggest industries.
In 1851, for example, children were taught about farming, housework, preparing breakfast, knitting and shoe-making – all appropriate for the top five post-industrial revolution occupations of agriculture, domestic services, textiles, labouring and shoe-making.
But 160 years later, the workplace has changed dramatically. More than four million people work in the wholesale and retail trade, more than three million as health or social workers and
2.6 million as educators – yet according to Learndirect, many young people have “skills gaps which impact on their job prospects and choices”.
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