Government policy around the world is heavily influenced by a ‘human capital’ perspective. Education systems are pressed towards developing young people for their roles in the labour market: in the UK this is signalled in the term ‘employability’. Curricula differ in the ways in which they respond. Data are provided from three recent UK surveys that bear on employability and are discussed with reference to the USEM account of employability.
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Mantz Yorke (2004) studied this question.