Monday 31 October 2011

Young People Without Qualifications: How ‘Headline Numbers’ Shape Policy and Aspiration

via Latest articles from CentrePiece – The Magazine for Economic Performance – produced by the CEP by Hilary Steedman

CEPCP349. October 2011.

England’s most widely used indicator of young people’s education and labour market status is the NEET category – “not in education, employment or training”. Making comparisons with how France and Germany measure school leavers’ progression and achievement, Hilary Steedman argues that NEET is no longer good enough.

Full article: http://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/cp349.pdf (4pp)

The article is based on Les élèves sans qualification: La France et les pays de l'OCDE by Ekaterina Melnik, Martine Möbus, Noémie Olympio. Hilary Steedman, Rémi Tréhin-Lalanne and Eric Verdier, a study commissioned by the HCE and coordinated by Eric Verdier and Hilary Steedman. http://www.hce.education.fr/gallery_files/site/21/106.pdf


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