More than one million young people in the UK are not in education, employment or training. They’re NEET, and according to a new government report it’s a growing problem among 16 to 24-year-olds. Across Europe, young people suffered greatly during the Covid pandemic, but while other countries recovered, Britain did not.
sammy gexoiler Guardian reporters are out and talking to the neat – some of whom have applied for thousands of jobs – to try to find out what’s going wrong. He hears how AI and remote job applications are affecting their job prospects and discouraging them.
annie kelly talks to HannahA 24-year-old young man who came from a small rural town but is an Oxford graduate who received a bursary to study there. She says it has become almost impossible for her to find a job. Hannah says the constant rejection takes its toll, but she also feels like all her hard work at school, college and university was for nothing. She says her brother, who is 27, is in the same boat. divine light, A Lancaster University lecturer explains where the first jobs have gone and what needs to be done to support young people and transform the jobs market.
