College helps tackle issue of youth unemployment
A PORTSMOUTH college has taken part in a national conference focusing on youth unemployment.
It was the sixth annual national NEET conference – NEET stands for Not in Employment, Education, or Training and is a term used to describe young people struggling to find work.
Simon Paine, head of the centre for entrepreneurship at Highbury College, ran a workshop to policy makers and researchers at the event in Birmingham.
He said: ‘I’ve met many young people who aren’t in work or education and they describe the experience like living in a black hole they can’t escape from.
‘We need to use our guile, creativity and collective resources to tackle this problem for our society.’
To find out more about the centre, email info@ highbury.ac.uk
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