Young people
Young people are sorting themselves out without help from the hand-wringing elite
There was plenty in the jobs stats yesterday to get commentators and bloggers wringing their hands about our lost generation of young people. The tone of the debate is very much that young people are the victims of a failing market needing endless help and support to get back on their feet. However, it overlooks the fact that increasingly the so-called millennials are taking control of the market for themselves and making it work for them.
By Adam Lent | Notebook, Opinion | Thursday, 13 September 2012 at 1:55 pm
Politics is the real loser from ‘Young, Bright and on the Right’
The general perception of a politically active young person is that they have been “politicized” by their parents. Never would the average teenager wish to engage in anything that even resembles political debate. Those who do are not only uncool, they wear blazers and they feature in BBC documentaries.
By Tom Davies | Notebook, Opinion | Thursday, 16 August 2012 at 8:00 am
It’s time to start telling the right stories about young people
With public trust and optimism in short supply it’s easy to find negative stories about young people. As a generation they’re written off as being ill-equipped for the demands of a working life, let alone a professional one.
By Kate Robertson | Notebook, Opinion | Saturday, 11 August 2012 at 8:00 am
For some children, PE lessons are far from enjoyable
At the height of Olympic fever, it’s all well and good to say that children should be doing more sport and that state schools should add more hours of PE into the curriculum, but I think we are overegging the pudding, here.
By Sophie Warnes | Health, Notebook, Opinion | Friday, 10 August 2012 at 3:03 pm
Stop and search: An open letter to Theresa May MP, Nick Herbert MP and Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe
Our work with young people, and in-depth research into last summer’s riots, shows that stop-and-search was a key causal factor in the violence that swept the country.
By Mediorite | Notebook, Opinion | Thursday, 9 August 2012 at 2:00 am
Generation Y are suffering from the recession – don’t tell us we’re not
If some of the more hysterical right wing papers are to be believed there is only one type of young person; the angry, feckless yob that graces the front of the tabloids carrying various electronic goods looted from Argos.
By Caroline Mortimer | Notebook | Monday, 16 July 2012 at 4:00 am
We need to connect with young people using technology
As the number of unemployed young people (16 – 24) in the UK continues to hover around the one million mark, a perception persists amongst some professionals that these unemployed people are also disengaged, at odds with and disconnected from society.
By Josh Cope | Notebook, Opinion | Tuesday, 19 June 2012 at 2:00 am
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