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Not educated enough to work in a supermarket?????
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http://www.telegraph....n-school-leavers.html
Credit due to Morrison's for sending these youngsters back for "remedial pre-job training" before they start work, but who is to blame for this shocking state of affairs?
Is it the education system, is it the teachers, is it their parents, or just the teenagers themselves?
Credit due to Morrison's for sending these youngsters back for "remedial pre-job training" before they start work, but who is to blame for this shocking state of affairs?
Is it the education system, is it the teachers, is it their parents, or just the teenagers themselves?
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"They lacked a lot of confidence and social skills" - I would say that rather than being let down the the education system, they have been let down by Facebook, mobile phones and computer games. I would think a lack of social skills is going to be more and more common as kids learn only to communicate electronically.
You pay peanuts, you get monkeys.
Youths in high unemployment areas such as Salford are forced to apply for many jobs they are not suitable for in order to get any unemployment benefit. They might be brilliant car mechanics or joiners, but there aren't enough of those jobs, so they get jobs they have no interest in for the wage.
Youths in high unemployment areas such as Salford are forced to apply for many jobs they are not suitable for in order to get any unemployment benefit. They might be brilliant car mechanics or joiners, but there aren't enough of those jobs, so they get jobs they have no interest in for the wage.
I'm not entirely surprised - many employers have been saying that school leavers don't have basic maths and English skills useful in the work environment, and to be honest, some people already on work don't either. We have to offer basic skills tests when people start courses such as NVQs, and sometimes the applicants still need support to reach the required standard - and they're already in jobs - they've just developed clever coping mechanisms to cover their knowledge shortfalls.
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I watched a discussion on education a couple of weeks ago, and according to the league tables, Britain, something like the sixth richest nation in the world, is at number twenty-six on the list for mathematics. (I think I have that right). Whilst parents (and society) must bear a good deal of responsibility for the lack of discipline our children are instilled with, the problems really began when government started to interfere with education (and the same applies to the National Health Service). When ministers acknowledge that their ideas aren't better than those of highly qualified educators things might change - but I wouldn't hold my breath because dumbing down within the education system has become the norm, not only for the student, but for the teacher too. What would once have been an unacceptable standard for a teaching qualification has now become acceptable, and the rot has set in.