Training and developing working age people is a concern for virtually all governments around the world. Indeed, improving the skills and knowledge of the public is considered a worthy endeavour and the UN advocates such an objective.

In 2006, in the UK, there were 1.1 million more graduates than graduate jobs; at the same time, jobs which required neither qualifications nor experience outnumbered unqualified people by nearly 5 million (Felstead et al., 2007).

Questions

• What does this phenomenon mean in terms of public educational policy?