Inadequate vocational training

Despite a UK government pledge to provide training for every unemployed school-leaver, official figures in 1993 showed that almost 7,000 young people have been waiting more than eight weeks for a place in a youth training programme.

1. In the sixties the key to growth was thought to be the application of technology that required the skills of fewer and fewer people. It is clear now that the successful application of technological advance depends on the availability and adaptability of larger and larger numbers of increasingly skilled people.

1. Insufficient special training
2. Inadequate human resources development
3. Deficient local structures for the unemployed

1. Unequal opportunity for vocational training
2. Restricted in-service training
3. Lack of vocational teachers
4. Lack of programmes for dropouts
5. Lack of agro-urban training
6. Inadequate teacher training
7. Inadequate medical training
8. Inadequate industrial retraining programmes
9. Inadequate career advice
10. Inadequacy of agricultural education

1. Waste of human resources
2. Obsolete vocational skills
3. Limited availability of technical expertise in remote communities
4. Incompetent professionals
5. Inappropriate training for structural and technological changes
6. Difficulty of youth transition from school to work

1. Low plant investment per worker
2. Insufficient apprenticeship opportunities

1. Unavailability of trainee employment

1. Transferring professional expertise
2. Providing sufficient opportunities for practical training
3. Formalizing technical training structures
4. Enhancing vocational training capacity
5. Developing adult retraining schemes
6. Abstaining from opportunities for practical training

1. Lack
2. Insufficiency
3. Ineffectiveness
4. Inadequacy