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TEACHERS and students backed calls yesterday to boost vocational training in a bid to slash youth unemployment in Scotland by nearly half.
The plan came out of the Scottish government’s Wood Commission’s latest findings, which said that Scotland’s schools are “simply not preparing” young people for working life.
Nearly one in five people across Scotland are currently unemployed — double the rate for the working age population as a whole.
The EIS president who defended Marxist politics in the 1980s fought Thatcherite educational policies while organising Teachers for Peace rallies and ensuring Morning Star circulation in Scotland’s pit villages and factories, writes JOHN FOSTER
With 12,000 fewer teachers since 2010 and dwindling resources, Scotland’s schools desperately need investment to support diverse learners rather than empty promises from politicians, writes ANDREA BRADLEY
