The recession is Having an unexpected effect on sixth formers even before they have left school, because there are not enough jobs to go around and more being lost daily, applications by mature students have gone through the roof .
Unemployed adults desperate to retrain or improve their qualifications are snapping up places, an estimated 50,000 will be rejected when the clearing process begins after results are announced next month, because the Government cant create enough places.
Even though an extra 10,000 places were created last month this will not be enough to stem the tide of applications, Students who narrowly fail to meet their grade targets will face a scramble for places.
I’m not sure if there is an easy answer to this but here’s a suggestion, again we are hearing of massive profits from our banks many of whom were out with their begging bowls not so long ago begging for taxpayers money, what about a extra one of tax hit on them, one bank announced profits of 3 billion pounds, not turnover profit!! a 5% taxation would raise 150 million pounds and that is just one bank imagine the amount from them all combined. then pump the money back into education and job creation, this would help the economy greatly and go some way towards the banks getting back some public goodwill.
Just a suggestion, maybe I will forward this to Gordon Brown, after all it cant be any worse than the advice he has been fed so far.
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