Every year the CBI tells us there is a huge school-employer mismatch; that young people lack essential employability skills.
Surely we all know there is no point in turning out pupils who have sheaves of GCSEs and A levels if they have no idea how to apply them in the real world?
This year I decided to stop listening and start acting on the CBI’s warnings – a concerted campaign to address the issue head-on in the three schools I run.
Of course the real root of the problem is that schools are measured against how well pupils do in traditional curriculum areas which bear little relation to what’s happening in the world of work. There is a place for core academic study, but in my view a GCSE in resilience or running your own business would not go amiss. Sadly this is unlikely to happen. So what’s the next best thing?
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