At 15:38 24/01/2013, Sally wrote:
Comments? Sally
Yes, as the video says, the big problem is the chronological gap between the world of education and the enitrely different world of work. I don't know about elsewhere but, even before the Great Recession, almost half (40%) of 14-year old English boys at state secondary schools felt alienated from education because they weren't being taught anything that led to a job. I guess it's much worse now, what with the growing skill gap between increaingly dumbed-down jobs (which many 14 year-olds could do), and the increasingly specialized, highly educated professions. There are still millions of jobs in between, of course, but they're being invaded by automation. I'm afraid that the McKinsey video didn't take me any further -- it just restated the problem.
About half of the Greagt abd the Good now visiting the Wolrd Economic Forum at Davos are saying that America (and the rest of the world later) must re-estbalish GDP growth of at least 4% or 5% (and believe that it can do so!) and half who are saying that, maybe, what is happening now is the "New Normal". I'm in the latter camp, of course, because I've been saying this for some years on FW, but if I' m right then the problem of growth youth unemployment and growing long-term junemployment will only be finally solved when what I call the 80-class in the advanced countries continue their practice of not producing enough children.
Keith . Keith
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