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While the "establishment" is trying to squeeze all the youngsters into acedemia what, as I have asked previously, is happening to the trade and craft skills? In my somewhat out-of-touch view it seems that the opportunity to learn basic craft skills at school is missing or, at best, severely limited for those that are less academically inclined. We still need carpenters, joiners, plumbers, electricians, bricklayers, painters and decorators, butchers, bakers and candlestick makers in the future. Are we to rely soley on migrants to fill these important and necessary jobs?
The first priority, however, must be to make the potential future workforce numerate and literate _before_ they go on secondary education.