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I could not agree more with Polly Toynbee (Our kids are not for these plans is empty, February 10). Having attended several events related to the week of learning, I left with a sense of shame, disbelief, despair and even learn English. The reality is too obvious in the construction sector. Since 2007, the number of freshmen informed skills building construction fell by 50% more in trades such as masonry, where the figure is 67%. This represents just over 1% of the workforce, compared to less than 5% in the Nordic countries. Only just over half are the result of an apprenticeship program. The rest is to try to learn about a specific occupation in college, but no work experience your chances of entering the labor market are much smaller
What is needed is a comprehensive education and training, incorporating elements of the university, the workshops and the work, negotiated and agreed between employers , unions and educators, and supported by government regulation. Instead, we have the "flexibility", which seems, in the worst case, in the sense of learning from £ 2.60 per hour for 12 weeks, and "adaptation", which means to impart knowledge work immediately in hand and has no lasting value for the future need. Is not it time Britain joined Europe in the qualification of young people in the broad base of occupations, with a specific social situation and the salary you give them the confidence they deserve?

Linda Clarke

professor of industrial relations in Europe, Westminster Business School

. I was disappointed to read Polly Toynbee article on learning - ignores fundamental facts. This month, the National Audit Office said that for every $ 1 in learning tax dollars generated £ 18 for the global economy - and certainly stimulate economic growth and creating opportunity in life for young and old alike. Learning takes an average of more than 12 months and involves a period of rigorous training necessary for employment. We have strengthened the management of learning in development -. Training providers who do not meet the high standards of students deserve to have their funding withdrawn
This is irrefutable proof that the government's unprecedented investment, backed by tough new measures to ensure that the amount corresponds to the quality, helps to make learning the rule gold in the training.

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John Hayes MP

Minister of Higher Education, skills and learning throughout

. Polly Toynbee's just that the lessons have been devalued by the companies that use public funds to rebadge their internal training programs or suppliers that young people have a diet with little chance of employment at the end of the itself. These distortions are reduced by the work of many traditional educational providers, such as the fungus, where young learners have very good prospects of being employed. The race to comply with policy-based top-down targets and constant changes in regulations and requirements threatens to undermine a respected training program that serves both to employers, youth, and by extension the country.

ignite learning as a soundbite easy to reduce youth unemployment is a disservice to regimes that were making a difference for young people for many years.

Richard Heighington

CEO, mushrooms

. Polly Toynbee wrote that "learning new ... it's almost a lie. "I acts signed by my grandfather, my grandfather, when he joined the merchant navy as an apprentice: he ended up as a captain. My late father-in-law joined the RAF as an apprentice, and after being put into service in the ranks, came a squad leader. A good friend left school at 16, became an apprentice electrician, and retired as as director of a major electrical construction company. Toynbee is right to say that successive governments have "devalued" and "destroyed" the word. Is it too late to restore respect for learning

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