Student protests 21st November 2012 London

Student Organisers expect 10,000 people to turn out for Demo 2012. Students from across the UK will march through the streets of London on Wednesday in a bid to put young people back on the political agenda....

Microsoft to help 300,000 jobless young people in the UK

Microsoft to help 300,000 jobless young people in the UK take steps towards work over the next three years. The initiative aims to offer some of Britain's 1 million unemployed 16 to 24-year-olds the skills and...

Apprenticeships for the Young are Nothing but Cheap Labour

.The  UK Coalition Government is funding a number of Lower Level  'apprenticeships' for minimum wage jobs such as kitchen porters, receptionists and administration assistants, paying young people a pittance of  just £2.65 an hour for jobs up to 40 hours a...

One million young people remain jobless in the UK

Youth unemployment in our capital city has soared to crisis proportions not seen for a generation. One in four young people aged 16 to 24 is unemployed rising to 27 per cent among young men — a total of 120,000...

Old People and Children

Today I had the experience of walking an old woman to a supermarket, and it got me thinking about the way in which the old people are treated in places such as Australia and United States. Many of them get locked up in nursing homes where they are frequently subject to...

Support for Human Rights Law Review in Scotland

EDINBURGH—International human rights education group Youth for Human Rights International today announced its support for the Scottish Parliament's review of the law to bring it in line with the European...

York Scouts half-way to John o' Groats

LIVERPOOL—A group of fourteen Scouts, Explorer Scouts and Scout Leaders from York, North Yorkshire reached the mid-way point of their journey from Land's End to John o' Groats as they crossed the River Mersey...

Ecstasy - UK rejects advice to downgrade

A report by the UK Government's own Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs that concluded Ecstasy should be downgraded from a Class A illegal drug to Class B has been rejected by the home secretary Jacqui...

Rethink the value of college

Education is importantbut for some young peopleit could be economically [better to go to work first. q url="http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0129/p09s02-coop.html"]Today's economic downturn has blindsided a...

One in ten young people feel life is meaningless

12% of young people in Britain feel life is not worth living according to a report published by the Prince's Trust. That's more than 1 in 10 of UK children. 47% of young people said that they were regularly...

Boozy Britain's bloody New Year: A 999 call every seven second...

British culture. When it comes to youth culture youth sometimes gets a bad press. Most young people are actually and self-evidently good but the media often chooses to run endless stories on anti-social, binge...

Anti-drink ads 'waste millions'

UK youth culture has drink at its heart and according to a new report from Birmingham University Business School the Government's failure to understand this has meant that its anti-booze ads miss the mark. The...

Digital divide between young and old on online privacy

A new study out of Canada's Ryerson University, The Next Digital Divide: Online Social Network Privacy, has found that young people believe that personal information posted online remains relatively private, while older generations consider all information posted online to be...

Celtic League - promoting an agenda for young people in Scotland and Wales

This item courtesy of the Celtic League: The General Secretary (GS) of the Celtic League has written to theScottish and Welsh Government's to ascertain what the position inthese respective countries is with...

Greece's lost generation

To look at the cafes full of young people sipping four euro coffees it would be easy to imagine that young Greeks have little to trouble them apart from the normal cares of exams, relationships and ...

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