Only now is it becoming evident at what happened with Education under Labour.
It seems that year after year Labour shouted standards are improving, but at the same time industry and commerce complained that qualification our kids had were not the right ones.
Now just over 12 months into the coalition government, it’s now emerging that in 1997 over 293,000 kids sat GCSE in Maths & English (50%) , by 2010-11 this was down to 152,000 (22%)
This follows an independent report on education and it found that 350,000 children each year are studying for qualifications with
“Little to no labour market value”
But things are getting better there is now an increase in the up-take of Maths & Physics
Sandwell Tory said
We are pushing industry and business to take off and bring real money into our country
Giving jobs to our people, but the people must have the right qualifications for the job.
I have to ask what good is a GCSE in travel and tourism in Sandwell and following the TV programme CSI the number of kids on forensics courses rocketed when sadly the jobs in that area are very limited.
We need a work force that can count and write to fill the jobs which are now being created to help pay off Labours Debt.
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