The school leaving age could be raised for all pupils immediately. The plan was to impose obligatory schooling until 18 on those who will be aged 11 this year. So enormous are the rises in unemployment that it is to be made impossible to register as unemployed for anyone under 18.
In a further measure to hide the scale of worklessness, graduates from this year onwards are to be interned in Third Sector and other quango tax-funded make-work organisations for up to three months on less than minimum wage subsidies.
John Denham, former postman and currently Innovation, Universities and Skills minister said: “At the end, they will be more employable, and some of them will get jobs. These are the children of the baby-boomers. They will be a very big group. What do we do with them? We can’t just leave people to fend for themselves.”
Why not take them straight from the prison house at whatever age their term ends, and free up the universities and their funds for learning and research? At least we could stop calling people judged unable to fend for themselves graduates of an English University.
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Quite so, HG, and the whole purpose of the mass Universification of all higher education institutions is to keep young people off the dole.
Imperial College now offer a first year remedial education course. Imagine - one of the top "hard" science academic institutions in the world, and they have to do that.
And that is why, as that vile Brown would say, we are best placed not only to meet the recession but to come out of it.
FUBAR.
wv : oothuggi aye, am feeling a bit oothuggi today, for sure
'They will be a very big group. What do we do with them?'
encourages me, E. They will be young and strong and, quite soon, DV, they will be angry and vindictive and revengeful. Then it will not be what can we do with them, but what they can do for their country.
What a brilliant point, HG.
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