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Probably the best qualified unemployed workforce in Europe

March 7th, 2012 Posted in Uncategorized by

The mystifying assumption that, by improving Britain’s education and training record, somehow unemployment will disappear is not just debatable; it is misleading at best, and at worst it is utter nonsense… The emphasis on formal qualifications alone without incorporating labour demand may thus lead to a bizarre situation where – like Germany – one ends up with probably the best qualified unemployed workforce in Europe…

[G]overnment has been too concerned to raise numbers entering higher education at the expense of its quality, and with no real economic argument to back this expansion…

Thomas Lange, Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for International Labour Market Studies, Faculty of Management, The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen – 1998.

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