Unexpected visit about our Student Daughter?

BargainMad_3

Lokolo wrote: »

Is that meant to be haven't?

To be quite honest, if Connexions is one of your biggest gripes on tax payers money then you have problems.

The fact over 1 million young people are NEET, does show the problem. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-24745612

No it is what it states. They HAVE burnt through billions of pounds of taxpayers money. The service was costing roughly £500 million a year - give or take a few million. Collectively that means billions of pounds over the timeframe.

And for what?

The fact that we now have 1 million young people in the NEET category, despite all this money being spent, simply implies that Connexions has failed.

This adumbrates why:

http://www.infed.org/personaladvisers/connexions_strategy.htm

TurnUpForTheBooks_2

Yes, and part of the enormous black hole into which all this misdirected public money disappears is no doubt part responsible for the debt burden of the higher education budget (including cushy salaries and pensions for the anonymous administrators) now being placed firmly on the shoulders of those most vulnerable and impressionable in our society - our promising youngsters!

Student loans are all missold. Roll on the collapse of the Student Loan system and all the rotten initiatives like Connexions!

My kids should not be paying the inflated salaries and pensions of way-over-comfortable "administrator" hangers on, especially if they are part of hare-brained schemes like Connexions.

atypical

BargainMad wrote: »

No it is what it states. They HAVE burnt through billions of pounds of taxpayers money. The service was costing roughly £500 million a year - give or take a few million. Collectively that means billions of pounds over the timeframe.

Connexions has been replaced by the National Careers Service (hopefully it will do a better job). It's up to local councils whether they want to keep Connexions, and seeing as a lot have I presume they must have proved their value some how.