To mark this milestone this series of extracts or summaries reflects on aspects of youth policy and youth work practice over the past 25 years as featured in the 100th issue.
Could do better: Education policy since 1983
Tony Jeffs
Despite the growth that has taken place during the last 25 years, our schools, colleges and universities are as socially divided as ever. We perform reasonably well in comparison with other rich countries when it comes to test scores relating to numeracy and literacy but we fail badly in other respects. Our young people experience some of the worst levels of poverty, regard themselves as less happy, drink more alcohol, take more drugs and have more underage sex than their peers in other "rich" countries.
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