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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)