Quite unconvincing!
Is it really meaningful to make such statements that being a graduate
"halves your chance of being unemployed, but increases your chances of being
in employment by 3.2%"?
There is no quarrel with the idea that there is correlation between between
being a graduate and getting a job. But it would hardly be educational to
indoctrinate students with the apparent precision of these statements.
And what is the statement actually about? Measures of employment and
unemployment are problematic - to say the least. And being numerate does
not seem to have contributed much to making measures of employment and
unemployment less problematic.
The Barriers Report seems to trying to jump on to the 'evidence-based
policies' bandwagon. The relevant evidence in this employment/unemployment
area lies primarily in the way the measures are constructed. The
acquisition of numerical skills has little contribution to make in
evaluating the evidence provided by these measures.
Ray Thomas
creates meaningless concepts.
>
> Answers to Estelle Morris and/or my daughter (though I think
> there are
> other motives for engaging in HE sensu strictu)
>
> Allan Reese
>
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