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Why young people can’t get the jobs they want and the education they need
Rewritten May 2021
Hard Labour: Young people moving into work in difficult times
Martin Allen October 2015
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Another Great Training Robbery or a Real Alternative for Young People?
(Rewritten and updated November 2016)
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Other material on apprenticeships
Download August 2016 Apprenticeships in England Impoverished but laddered ICERES paper
Patrick McGurk & Martin Allen Apprenticeships-in-England
Download September 2015 YMCA Journal article
Apprenticeships. New Opportunities for Young People, or Another Great Training Robbery?
Download October 2015 FORUM Journal article
Mr Cameron’s Million Apprenticeships
View July 2014 Guardian feature ‘Dead end Apprenticeships…..’
http://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/jul/10/apprenticeships-failing-View ‘Dead end’ apprenticeships are failing to help young people find lasting workyouth-unemployment-skills#start-of-comments
Education Beyond the Coalition. Reclaiming the Agenda
Edited by Martin Allen and Patrick Ainley
ISBN 978-0-9575538-2-8 182 pp £6.99. Published Oct 2013
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introduction
John Yandell Pedagogy Clare Kelly Primary
Valerie Coultas English Martin Allen Gove and Exams
Robin Simmons FE Patrick Ainley Universities
Richard Hatcher LEAs Ken Jones How to Respond
The Great Reversal
Edited by Martin Allen and Patrick Ainley
ISBN 978-0-9575538-0-4 128 pp Published February 2013
Read Review http://radicaled.wordpress.com/a-review-of-the-great-reversal/
Currently not available as hardcopy To Download click here Great Reversal
The Great Reversal develops, expands and updates arguments made by the authors in two previous books…..The central argument is that the current strategy is to demolish what remains of the social democratic state education system established in the decades after the end of World War Two, and to do this as quickly as possible……compelling evidence is presented to illustrate that, rather than the lacking the skills, qualifications and abilities necessary for work, nowadays most young people are overqualified and underemployed. The authors are quite clear in their position: it is misguided economic policy rather than the education system that has let young people down………..
The Great Reversal is an engaging, incisive and affordable book. Those involved in providing education and training, advice and guidance, or welfare and support services for young people should read it. Trainee teachers, youth workers or careers advisers should also get a copy. Not only will it help students understand and critique what is going on round them, it will also enable them to argue for more just and meaningful alternatives.
Robin Simmons University of Huddersfield British Journal of Educational Studies
