Saturday, 10 January 2009

Comment on BBC article

I posted the following comment on the BBC website, in response to the following article.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7821629.stm
I'm not sure whether they will publish my comment, they already had some on there, and rarely update their comments once started, but I'm just trying to spread the word.

Whilst this initiative will prevent rising graduate unemployment, it can only be a temporary measure. This widening participation in higher education has led to a situation where many graduates are unable to find employment due to the lack of initiative in the wider economy to keep pace with the skills of the workforce. One way of preventing an increasing number of graduates going from univerisity to unemployment is to fund more places in postgraduate education. Not only will this prevent people finding their options limited to the dole, but they will be equiped with skills, and often the experience, to start up companies or enter higher skilled employment and to find their own way out of unemployment.

For some time now I have campaigned for such a scheme to be put into place. You can find details here : http://fairaccesspg.blogspot.com/ It's about time the government took action and stopped talent going to waste.

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