“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 occupations will no longer exist in 2025, with certain types of process work, customer work and many middle management roles forecast to disappear altogether.
So how do we prepare the next generation for the future when we can’t say with any certainty what roles we are preparing them for?”
* Mindset over skill set
* Primary barrier for employment is lack of experience
* Developing soft skills such as communication and team work are considered equally important part of a good education together with qualifications. Read more
