Youth Unemployment

The skills Gap is something I have written about before so reading the article again by BBC and a report thats out means in my opinion and yes its only my opinion so much training is a waste

The think tank the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) says a full-blown economic recovery will not fix the UK's youth unemployment problem.

The IPPR highlights a striking mismatch between what young people are training for and the types of jobs available.

For example, it says, 94,000 people were trained in beauty and hair for just 18,000 jobs, while only 123,000 were trained in the construction and engineering sectors for an advertised 275,000 jobs.

Further more

Although the youth unemployment rate has fallen sharply from 20.9% a year ago to 17.8%, the IPPR says there are still 868,000 young people aged 16 to 24 unemployed and 247,000 of them have been looking for work for over a year.

Thats just under 250.000 1/4 of a million. in the NEET group. The highest group also to be taking up Universal Credit incidently.

"A strong workplace-based vocational education and training system, with high employer involvement, contributes more to a smoother transition from education to work and a low rate of youth unemployment than anything else

This means that there is a need to look at promoting more use of the UK Apprentice system where the work is focussed around a need.