NEET stats rise in Colchester (From Essex County Standard)

Just what do you all expect then while we all sit there and pontificate on our wealth and pensions:::These people of our future who are suppose to be paying our pensions while they are in there careers...
1.No EMA for them
2. £9000 per year University fees
3. Now we have kicked them in the teeth by allowing Michael Gove to move the Grade Boundaries so they cant get their GCSE & A Levels:
4. The universities have got rid of UCAS points and now want straight A's to get in.
5.The teachers and Instructors in this area have just sat back and pandered to the TORIES on the fear that they are going to loose their pensions if they don't do as they are told.
6.If you do not put in you do not get back, it is simple math here. No wonder all these young citizens of ours are being sent to the wall because of 30,000 financial twits in London, who could not control themselves during the boom years.
I am happy to take a pension cut to help our young, I would happily give up £35 per week of my pension to help out.
We all need to start digging deep and helping out here, especially are young they are our future.

I fully support what Talbot-Harrington says. I could not have put it any clearer myself, however, I am not yet old enough to claim a pension but returned to education in my early 40s, successfully completing a 3 year degree at the lower rates and then doing a year's training in teaching (PGCE) in a local 6th form college. However, I am unable to secure a teaching job due to decreased numbers continuing onto further education in my subject specialism, which has led to me working in the education sector for a job paying minimum wage £6.08 per hour with no current hope of ever repaying my student loan! I am now in my early 50s and struggling financially. If that is indicative of a higher education, then we need to be honest and say that it does not bode well for the youngsters who do not see the benefits of education. However, with the current restraints to further education, how on earth do you sell the notion of encouraging students to progress to undertaking a degree course? What a dilemma and what a catastrophe this is becoming to those both employed in education and contemplating developing their education. There are now too many potential barriers to young people who actually DO want to achieve in life! Apprenticeships are not the answer, although they do help, but it appears that lots of 'untapped' potential is being lost through Mr Gove's initiatives. The government needs to act NOW and FAST.