
Youth Training and the Search for Work
Further education (FE) is no longer a peripheral part of the education system in Britain. The dramatic changes in the labour market and the resulting patterns of youth unemployment in the 1980s radically altered conceptions of FE and training. An increasing number of young people aged sixteen to nineteen were spending significant amounts of time in FE programs, work experience, and vocational prep...
Further education (FE) is no longer a peripheral part of the education system in Britain. The dramatic changes in the labour market and the resulting patterns of youth unemployment in the 1980s radically altered conceptions of FE and training. An increasing number of young people aged sixteen to nineteen were spending significant amounts of time in FE programs, work experience, and vocational prep...