s than any other before them. Newly released statistics predict that by the end of 2011, there will be more young "neets" (not in education, employment or training) than has ever been recorded in this country before.
The snappy acronym disguises the fact that young people are faced by a variety of different problems. On one side, there are academic underachievers. While young people struggling at school is certainly nothing new, New Labour's emphasis on "education, education, education" has certainly amplified the feeling that failure at academic level equals failure as a person.