The latest Global Employment Trends for Youth report, compiled by the International Labour Organisation, makes for sobering reading. Some 73.4 million young people around the world are expected to be unemployed in 2013 – a scenario that is predicted to get worse.
I’m struggling to get a handle on how our government, our Department for Education and, indeed, our schools propose to address this crisis. All current and proposed government policy is aimed at key academic subjects. It goes without saying that we all want UK students to be bright, literate, numerate and knowledgeable. It also goes without saying that we want every suitable student to have the option of further education.
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