Learning to Fail: How Society Lets Young People Down

by Fran Abrams and Fran Abrams

During a decade of relative prosperity from the mid-1990s onward, governments across the developed world failed to crack one major issue - youth unemployment. Even when economic growth was strong, one young person in 10 in the United Kingdom was neither working nor learning. As the boom ended, the number of young people dropping out after leaving school - already acknowledged to be too high - began to rise at an alarming rate. As governments face...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415483964
• ISBN13: 9780415483964
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.1"