Researcher, Edge Foundation
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New book: 'Universities and the Purpose of Higher Education: Expansion and Development in Post-War Britain' (SRHE/Routledge)
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Dr. Josh Patel (he/him)
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Without effective interventions into job creation and employer behaviours, training alone can only influence young people’s long-term outcomes (and therefore the condition of the nation) so far. (5/6)
Together, they are clear indications of the pitfalls of deficit models and the overemphasis on training and skills development in young people that does nothing to address the structural factors which suppress demand. (4/6)
Dr. Josh Patel (he/him)
As Edge warned earlier this year, learning lessons from the past at times of acute pressure is an antidote to reactive emergency politics. The two pieces for our Learning from the Past series: on the Youth Training Scheme, published last week, and the MSC, are particularly apposite: (3/6)
When I started writing about the Youth Training Scheme last year, conditions with youth unemployment could arguably have been said to vaguely resemble the 1970s; since February and the institution of the war in Iran and the threat of an energy crisis, the parallels are now pretty alarming (2/6)
