The problem is the only options available for kids now is the dole or higher education.
Even the clever ones aren't going to easily find jobs nowadays.
( girlinthehole, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 14:58, 2 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

this is also very very true
and yet more and more of our logistics and manufacturing goes abroad.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 15:00, Reply)

Our industry can't find good engineers anymore.
We have a couple of useless nitwits here but we daren't get rid of them in case we can't find replacements.
( girlinthehole, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 15:02, Reply)

I agree with this.
But again, you CAN go to Uni. You will just owe a shitload of money when you are finished.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 15:04, Reply)

This is what I mean.
There are kids going in to uni regardless of the debt. And let's face it we never thought that far ahead at that age. These are kids who would rather work or would be more suited to working instead of trying to get a degree they don't really care that much about.
( girlinthehole, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 15:06, Reply)

We need more techinical training
We should be training more plumbers, engineers etc, rather than art historians.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Wed 9 Nov 2011, 15:21, Reply)