According to the OECD’s Adult Skills Report, England and the USA are ranking in the bottom three of the 24 countries surveyed for literacy and numeracy among 16-25 year olds. Arguably, these factors point to the urgent need for comprehensive, state-supported vocational training programs. One case study that attests to the importance of apprenticeship schemes is Germany, which has successfully maintained youth employment at over 90% throughout the financial crisis, in contrast to some of its European neighbors.
“Unemployment is at a 10 year low, but with young people in the UK still more than twice as likely to be out of work than people of other ages, tackling youth unemployment remains one of the biggest challenges facing the UK’s labour market. A young person starting school today will be competing for employment in fifteen years’ time in a world that will probably be unrecognisable to us. Recently consulting firm CBRE predicted that half of today’s
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The level of youth unemployment in the UK should be a “national embarrassment”, according to John Longworth, director general of the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC). He told a conference in London that the education and skills system in the UK was “divorced” from the needs of business. “Businesses tell us they don’t have the talent pipeline that they need to grow and, as a consequence, we end up with a level of youth unemployment which is almost three times
