One million18 to 21's in UK are jobless (24Jan11)

[jonboda]

1 million ganja gardeners :D

[RockofEngland]

Why would employers spend time and effort training and investing in our youth, when it's so much easyier to steal workers from an other Country.

These youngster will always be known as Labours lost Generation

[0muffins0]

The only reason people employ young people is because they are cheaper, but why employ a youngster fresh from our crappy state education system (and who probably isn't particularly motivated) when you can have a better educated and harder working Polish guy instead?

[johneunson]

this is tragic. and we oldies can work 'til were 80. there's something wrong.

[saundersDave11]

Partially the fault of the Minimum Wage Law....

[AnnoyedDragon]

24 and never had a job, I've been unemployed since leaving university back in September 09. Thankfully I've managed to get volunteer work via Remploy at one of their factories, hopefully that helps the CV.

[kbdkbd99]

@AnnoyedDragon - you took a volunteer job instead of lounging on the dole.

I respect you enormously. I genuinely hope you find work soon, you deserve it, and believe me - eventually an employer will see that you are motivated and hard working. It will happen.

[AnnoyedDragon]

@kbdkbd99 Thanks, hopefully this will help me with all those "must have experience" positions :)

[kbdkbd99]

There is no shortage of *SKILLED* jobs in medicine, engineering, technology, IT, and high value added manufacturing.

Unfortunately, these 18-21yo don't have these skills that are necessary.

The reason for this is because many of these students go to university and study SHIT degrees like social care, media studies, mickey mouse studies etc.

Then they wonder why they can't get a job.

In africa, and india kids grab education with both hands, but here we have to bribe students with EMA.

[lukejedwards]

@kbdkbd99 I'd love to see you write a prize-winning dissertation and get yourself a first class honours diploma in these so-called 'mickey mouse' courses, you ignorant little troll. I bet you'd soon found out there's a lot more to them than you realize. Hearing you bang on about 'skilled jobs' makes me wonder if young people in this country are going to end up banished to Victorian workhouses or factories against our will to fund an unprecedentedly high pension bill of pampered baby boomer OAPs.

[kbdkbd99]

@lukejedwards dude - what's so hard for you to understand.

Whether "mickey mouse" studies is a hard degree or not is irrelevant. You can study the most difficult degree in the world but if it is related to a skill or profession that society does not need - you will not get a job.

On the other hand I reject your assertion that these mickey mouse degrees are hard anynway.

You might consider it a human right to study a degree like "history of art" - but we need engineers and doctors. Understand?

[lukejedwards]

@kbdkbd99 Oh, so society doesn't need journalists then? Or marketing comms experts? Or web designers? All of these are media-related professions.

[lukejedwards]

@kbdkbd99 The reason media/marketing grads can't get work is not because the subject isn't valuable - it's because most businesses in non-metropolitan areas simply don't want to give up their time, money & resources to advertise themselves or cultivate a local media presence. Most would much rather knock up a boring business card on MS Publisher, create a tacky website or design a crap logo themselves rather than enlist professional help to market themselves effectively to the local press.

[lukejedwards]

@kbdkbd99 My point is, the average business seemingly doesn't care about how PR & media management could generate decent publicity for themselves, and local journalism is squeezed by low revenues, meaning that newspapers are short-staffed as it is and only can take on unpaid interns & volunteers, so what we're talking about here is a job shortage problem, not a problem with the integrity of the course, so don't you dare patronise me. Understand?

[kbdkbd99]

@lukejedwards I understand entirely.

If my son came to me and said "Dad, what should I study" - I would tell him to study for the skills that society needs.

On the other hand, teachers and leftists will say "Follow your passion".

Every problem we face as a society can only be solved by technologists (doctors, engineers, scientists) etc.

Societies problems cannot be solved by idiots who have studied Mickey Mouse degrees.

Society needs technologists to solve problems and create solutions.

[THESTAFFIECHANNEL]

Who are you to say they got an awful education?...

Wether they had or not, the simple fact is that the jobs that were there 8 months ago will not be here anymore.So your Narrative is complete deliberatley mis informed bunkem. Like Billy Bragg's song " The factories closing and the army's full. I dont know what I'm gonna do. But I've come to see , that in the land of free. There's only a future for a chosen few"...

To have and to have not.

[BloodguardGorak]

@THESTAFFIECHANNEL Good comment.

[Petey90]

I'm one of those. Yay us.

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[roflcopter2006]

This is really really sad.

[fx02zbn]

It's not because they lack experience, we all lack experience when we leave school. What they lack is a polish passport.