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Youth Fight for Jobs, photo Sarah Mayo |
1 September 2010
Our future under attack
Fightback! Join the day of action on 20 October It seems that £30,000 a year can almost guarantee you top grades in your A-levels. This year, students from private schools were more than twice as likely to get the new A* grades as those from comprehensives.
Suraj Shah and Ben Robinson, Youth Fight for Jobs, say life is different for those who go to state schools...
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19 August 2010
We won't be a Lost Generation: Protest: Saturday 21 August 2010
Youth Fight for Jobs is calling a demonstration on Saturday 21 August against the government's brutal attacks on access to education.
It will be at 4pm, outside the department for Business, Innovation and Skills, 1 Victoria Street, London SW1H OET.
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Youth Fight for Jobs, photo Sarah Mayo |
18 August 2010
Youth must fight for a future!
Bang, bang, bang. Listen out for the sounds of doors shutting in the faces of young people this month. 260,000 students have fulfilled their part of the contract. They have studied, stressed and sweated...
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18 August 2010
Student demo should be start of the fightback
With thousands of young people being denied a university place, facing a substandard education, forced into low paid work or left on the scrapheap of unemployment, a nationally organised fightback is essential, writes Claire Laker-Mansfield, Socialist Students national organiser.
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18 August 2010
No to advice service cuts
As it becomes clear which groups will be hit hardest by the Con-Dems' cuts, it has been announced that careers services for young people in England face huge cuts in funding, writes Paul Callanan.
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18 August 2010
Decent pay for interns
The release of the report 'Why interns need a fair wage' by the Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR) think tank has received much media attention, writes Matt Dobson.
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12 August 2010
'Lost generation' forced on dole and excluded from university
Youth Fight for Jobs - Press Release: The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has warned that there is a "risk of a crisis legacy of a lost generation", writes Paul Callanan, 23, unemployed and a member of the national steering committee of Youth Fight for Jobs said:.
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4 August 2010
For real jobs, not slave labour
The Tories’ new youth service plan is the latest attempt to use young people as free labour. Billed as “non-military national service””, it will offer 16 year olds an eight week programme of volunteering and community work immediately after finishing school.
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Youth Fight for Jobs demonstration in Barking, photo Paul Mattsson |
4 August 2010
We won't be a lost generation, fight for jobs and education!
The statistics range wildly but one thing is obvious - young people's plans for the future are being dashed, writes Ben Robinson.
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Leeds Youth Fight For Jobs demo February 2010, photo Leeds Socialist Party |
21 July 2010
Youth and students: organise to fight for a future
After New Labour's axe men began the education cuts, the Con-Dem butchers seem to have been let loose with a chainsaw. Proposed cuts to university budgets over the next two years amount to £1 billion. £340 million is being removed from college budgets. The UCU lecturers' union believes this will mean 34,000 job losses...
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