« David Wiley's "Openness and the Disaggregated Future of Higher Education" | Main | "In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart" ... »

Comments

As you say, the NEETs figure is a very disturbing finding - I was just wondering if you could point me towards the actual research project?

==

Brian. I am trying to find out and you are not the first to ask. Seb

Concerning your piece on NEETs and Looked After Children, your readers will probably not be aware of the good work being done by colleagues in the Sheffield College. For more on this, see:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/winners-report/tomorrow.

Seb - just to re-iterate the mortality rate for male NEET individuals is staggering and needs to be broadcast further. I hope you can identify the research and circulate.

Best wishes Brendan

Seb

Is there a gender breakdown in the NEETS statistics? [Seb responds: not that I know of, and the original data for this post, which I have asked for, is so far not forthcoming....] I am assuming that the majority of these young people are male.

Your piece says that well over 50% leave school with 5 A-C grades at GCSE and while this is 'just true' for 2007 47% had 5 A-C's that included Maths and English.


The excel spread sheet from this site http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/rsgateway/DB/SFR/s000815/index.shtml and some of the statistics show improvement but there is plenty of scope don't you think!

This piece on the BBC web site would support the line in your post above.

Nine months later, the 7 August Times Educational Supplement carries the same story.

The comments to this entry are closed.