Young people in London are 43% more likely to go to university than their counterparts in the north-east of England, says a report from the Higher Education Funding Council for England. The funding council has published an analysis of changing patterns of young people going to university. It shows a widening regional gap, with Londoners taking an increasingly disproportionate number of places. The gender gap has widened too, with women more likely to go to university. The study from the funding council
In June to August 2013, 958,000 young people aged 16-24 were unemployed, essentially unchanged from the previous quarter and from the same period last year. The unemployment rate for those aged 16-24 was 21.0%, up 0.1% points compared with the previous quarter and up 0.5% points on the same period last year. Read the full report
We must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. ” Goethe”
The Manifesto for Youth Enterprise, which is based on the findings from the first year of RBS’s Inspiring Enterprise initiative, argues that more could be done to help young people at every stage of their “entrepreneurial journey” – from instilling idea of entrepreneurship at an early age through popular media, to developing entrepreneurial abilities in school and helping them start and scale their own venture. One in seven young people in the US are in the early stages of starting a
The number of young people setting up a business has almost doubled in a year, reveals a new report by the RBS Enterprise Tracker, in association with UnLtd. And although young men appear nearly twice as likely to be starting a business as young women – it’s the young women who are 30% more likely to be starting social businesses. Results from the quarterly survey conducted by Populus in August show that 14% of people aged
