Soaring youth unemployment, no long-term jobs strategy – time for some joined-up thinking Chancellor
…employers with one hand, the Government is taking away 10,000 university places available to young people through the University Modernisation Fund. At a time when our global competitors are increasing the number of graduates in the workforce to increase their capacity for economic growth, how can the UK justify a reduction in places available to young people – especially when there are such high levels of youth unemployment? “The latest UCAS fig…