Equality & Diversity Management Report and Action Plan
Work based learning has come to be accepted as an important avenue for upgrading skills and abilities of people who have been unable to complete formal school and college education and are thus disadvantaged in their quest for suitable and lucrative employment opportunities in comparison with their more fortunate peers. These disadvantages, which arise primarily from compelling social, educational, and economic factors, and force young men and women to drop out during the later years of school or decide against taking up a college education, result in lower employability, lesser income, reduced growth prospects and job mobility, general dissatisfaction and frustration, and unhappier total life experiences. (more…)
