Schools don't do right job
EMPLOYERS do not believe that the current educational system equips school leavers with the skills they need for employment, according to a survey carried out for the British Chambers of Commerce by Populus.
More than half the businesses surveyed do not think and six out of ten do not think that the current education system provides individuals with an adequate grounding to work in modern-day Britain.
British Chambers of Commerce director general David Frost said: “It is nothing short of a national scandal that so many school leavers neither have the qualifications or the aptitude to enter the workforce.
“We have to ask, what can be done to reform the education system so that a generation of teenagers do not end up left behind with no experience of the world of work?”