Are young people trained to enter the labour market?

A survey by British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) - and which is made echo the BBC--shows that young people lack job skills such as communication or ability to work in team. In the study, which was attended by 3,000 companies, stressing that nine of every ten students who abandon studies are not prepared to enter the labour market, and the same goes for half of those who graduate.

With these results, managers of the institution have requested that all British secondary education students made practices in enterprises, while the Ministry of education has made public that it will boost measures that promote cooperation between schools and businesses.

Three of every four companies that responded to the survey blamed this data to the lack of work experience of young people, and more than half (57%) stressed that new generations lack even basic skills like communication. However, 50% of the interviews companies lack jobs practices by monetary issues and time (25%), by excessively bureaucratic (23%) or lack of information (22%).

Other interesting facts are that, because of this lack of preparation, more than one quarter of enterprises (27%) indicate that not recruited young workers (between 16 and 24 years old) in the last year and only 39% offered practices. An additional 32% arises to offer them in the future, while 54% said that if additional training is subsidized they would encourage to engage more young people.

Leaders of the Chambers of Commerce have also recommended that all students have the opportunity to study modules in business and entrepreneurship as part of his studies required to encourage and train potential entrepreneurs and business people from a more diverse academic range.