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Panorama: Starting Work: A Leap in the Dark?

on BBC One London

Television's top reporters close in on the topics of the day
Robin Day, Michael Charlton, Nicholas Harman, Alan Hart, Richard Kershaw, Robert MacNeil, Julian Pettifer

Tonight - Starting work: A leap in the dark?
"The more we educate, it seems, the vaguer school-leavers are becoming about their future careers. They wander unarmed into the jungle of industrial society: to the tiger they are merely fodder." (Professor Michael Carter)
This week nearly half a million children will be leaving school for good. For most of them four or five years of secondary education will now be followed by a lifetime at work.
Tonight Panorama looks at Careers Guidance both inside and outside of school to discover why, for the vast majority of school leavers, this week will mark the beginning of a series of unhappy, wasteful and often painful accidents as they enter the world of work.
(Colour)

Contributors

Reporter:
Robin Day
Reporter:
Michael Charlton
Reporter:
Nicholas Harman
Reporter:
Alan Hart
Reporter:
Richard Kershaw
Reporter:
Robert MacNeil
Reporter:
Julian Pettifer
Assistant Editor:
Frank Smith
Editor:
Brian Wenham

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