Mentoring based on young peoples’ strengths can alleviate the crisis in education, training and employment

By Catherine Comfort, Academic Lead, Access Participation and Success Faculty of Business and Law, The Open University

Nearly 1 million 16 to 24-year-olds in the UK are currently outside education, employment or training and the number is currently projected to increase.

We can all see the huge waste of talent this represents for the young people concerned and society as a whole. In his interim report on young people and work, commissioned by the government, former MP Alan Milburn…

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