Each year I'm impressed by how articulate and interested the majority of teenagers are. Every time they are interviewed they sparkle.

They are good academically and are mostly middle-class white kids.

What about the working classes or lower class, who are not that bright? Do they go on the scrap heap and be told there is no future especially as you are not a DEI.

There needs to be some sort of cash incentive for companies across the country; to get young people into employment full-time or a least some decent part-time hours.

Apprenticeships need to pay the minimum wage not a few quid per hour, it should be for everyone over 16 even the seniors. I have no idea how people over 50-60 have been laid off but still need to find work to survive. Pension pots have been raided.

Greeters in supermarkets are a thing of the past. There is no point trying to make someone who has done manual labour for years, then a Job Coach tells them to learn to code.

It's easier for young people or someone who has worked with I.T. I do see people in a cafe sitting at a table with their laptops coding all day, it can be done anywhere.

I just about keep my head above water but if my business fails, I would be happy to do someone outdoors like litter-picking or learn some sort of job as a farm hand.

Yes teenagers are a bright engaged lot, don't drink like my generation used to and have the right priorities.

GM yes of course there is a less privileged class - always has been, always will be - but "middle class" and access to A levels and Uni spreads far wider than previous generations.

And that is a good thing.

Wyot wrote:
Yes teenagers are a bright engaged lot, don't drink like my generation used to and have the right priorities.

GM yes of course there is a less privileged class - always has been, always will be - but "middle class" and access to A levels and Uni spreads far wider than previous generations.

And that is a good thing.

I like to know how employers can pick the right CV that does not look identical to the last. It seems there are now more and more young people passing their A Levels.

Education is only one part of life's journey. More important is having the ability to learn from different experiences, learn/adapt to them and to have the mindset to enjoy life - without constantly criticising it.

In my local Surrey pub, three of the five barmen have third level education - what they lack, is ambition; another of life's requirements. Not feeling the need to put down your co-worker/neighbour also helps. Good friends too.