He bemoans the quality of the young people that Tesco seeks to recruit and says the company has to "pick up the pieces".
It is not a new story. Major employers have always moaned on this front: young people are never appropriately equipped for the labour market. But is this in fact the job of education?
A former Prime Minister, Jim Callaghan, thought so and elevated education to the top of the political agenda in his "Ruskin speech" in the 1970s. It was based on what employers had been telling him - that schools were not preparing young people for the world of work. Ever since, there have been initiatives in education to connect more closely to the needs of employers.
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