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Long Term Unemployment Education

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There are many policies that have been put in place to try and prevent long term unemployment, especially in the areas of education, disadvantaged areas and disadvantaged individuals. The social welfare has also improved from previous years to make sure that people who are long term unemployed are not living in poverty. With regards to education people can no longer afford to leave school early, and they also cannot be guaranteed and full time job. Currently, if you want to avoid long term unemployment education play's a very important role. According to Considine and Dukelow (2009) "in the current era, brains and intelligence count most in what is regarded as human capital" (Considine and Dukelow, 2009, p. 296). Educational disadvantage could …show more content…

Considine and Dukelow (2009) explain "while the scale of early school leaving is not as great as in earlier decades, the level of retention to Leaving Certificate level for students entering second level in 1999 was 83.7 per cent, which was a slight improvement on earlier cohorts in the 1990's (81.3 per cent in 1996, for example) (Department of Education and Science, 2008)" (Considine and Dukelow, 2009, p. 318). In relation to education one of the strategies that had been put in place was called "The National Action Plan for Social Inclusion 2007-2016" (Considine and Dukelow, 2009, p. 319). According to Considine and Dukelow (2009) the idea was to "set a target of ensuring that the proportion of 20 - 24 year olds completing second level exceeds 90% by 2013" (Considine and Dukelow, 2009, p. 319). Considine and Dukelow are not 100% convinced that these targets will be met. Considine and Dukelow explain that "this target may be difficult to reach, as borne out by earlier unmet targets. For example, the 1997 NAPS set out a target of a 90 per cent completion rate for the leaving certificate by 2000 and the same completion rate appeared in the 2003 partnership agreement Sustaining Progress which was suppose to have been met by 2006" (Considine and Dukelow, 2009,

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