First Article Summary & Reaction

What choice for school and college leavers in this job market?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/apr/13/lost-generation-higher-education-disillusion

At the moment the disillusionment that a good education is no longer a guarantee for finding a good job is especially harsh for students who want to enter or leave universities. While students know exactly which universities, traineeships and qualities will provide them with a job, teachers are complaining about the fact that they feel forced to respond to the student’ s demand and not being able to live up to their own intellectual and educational standards. Either way results in too many unskilled students entering the job market. The teaching unions are now realizing the importance of working together with the students so they can all make an effort to regain education as an authentic and rewarding activity.


The goal of education is to develop the intellectual skills and knowledge of students. Due to the growing commercially society things have changed. Government-owned companies are privatised, the amount of advertising is rising (for instance due to the Internet) and commercial music is successful. A thing we always relied on was education. Education is good, it helps people to grow. With the ridiculous proposition of the political party Tory the commercial society seems to have won more terrain. They think it would be good to adjust education on the job market. It should however be the other way around. More focus should be on the fact that people are not working on their own level.