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The Government says hundreds of thousands of work experience and training opportunities will be created over the next three years. The announcement comes after new figures showed more than one million young people are not in employment, education or training.
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00:00Well, the hard thing about young people is they're trying to get them to stay on longer
00:05because there isn't any jobs going for them, and then the jobs that they do offer them
00:10are all very lowly paid. It's exploiting youth, you know, and it's wrong.
00:16I'd say start with college first, because college, it helps you, like, a lot,
00:20it gets you out there a bit, but if, I'd say for some people that don't, I like the comfort
00:24zone,
00:25college is the best place to go, because you can get out your comfort zone,
00:28have a laugh with your mates, and it's a lot better for people.
00:32At the end of the day, if you're going to college or school, and you're 17 or 18,
00:37you don't want to come out and be being paid 11, 12 quid, and that's where they're being exploited,
00:43and that's why you get so many who actually make a choice not to work.
00:48They have all the degrees and everything, and they still can't get jobs.
00:51There was one fellow on the telly, he applied for about 500 jobs, and he had all sorts.
00:55They can't get, yeah.
00:56And I think you've just got one lesser back, saying they'll think about it.
01:01Well, to be honest with you, I think we should go back to apprenticeships.
01:03When I was a young lad, apprenticeships were shorter than a degree.
01:07They didn't cost, because the firm that took you on, they used to train you anyway.
01:12You were learning, actually, on the job.
01:14It's sad, strong, strong, strong.
01:16Because, you know, there's no jobs.
01:19They can't even get property, buy a house or anything, can they?
01:22We need bricklayers, we need plumbers.
01:25I mean, it pays good money, but apprenticeships are the future, I think.
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