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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/brown-claims-cuts-are-immoral.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Gordon Brown claims the coalition Government is making "immoral" cuts to education" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-brown-claims-cuts-are-immoral.jpg" alt="Gordon Brown claims the coalition Government is making "immoral" cuts to education"/></a></p>
<p>Gordon Brown has accused the coalition Government of making &#8220;immoral&#8221; cuts to education that would leave Britain with a worse youth unemployment problem than during the recession of the 1980s.</p>
<p>The former Labour prime minister, writing in the Daily Mirror, said removing state help for less well-off pupils to stay in education after 16 was an act of &#8220;economic vandalism&#8221;.</p>
<p>He said the country should be following the lead of Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Australia in boosting apprenticeship places to train young people to help the UK exploit fast-growing Asian consumer markets.</p>
<p>Mr Brown, who has written a book about the global economic crisis, spoke out after official figures this week showed a 35,000 jump in unemployment and a near-record number of young people out of work.</p>
<p>&#8220;Tragically Britain is entering yet another decade of youth unemployment,&#8221; he said, predicting that it would rise to over 20% &#8211; with one in three out of work in the worst-hit areas.</p>
<p>&#8220;We are still paying the price for the lost generation of wasted lives of the 1980s. Now we have a new social time bomb in the making.&#8221;</p>
<p>Saving the Future Jobs Programme from being scrapped would keep 50,000 young people &#8220;off the streets&#8221; and rather than reducing funding for universities &#8211; made up by rises in tuition fees &#8211; the Government should ensure they &#8220;do a better job&#8221;, he suggested.</p>
<p>&#8220;Cutting education &#8211; writing off half a generation of young people &#8211; is immoral and an economic waste.</p>
<p>&#8220;The Educational Maintenance Allowances remain central to getting teenagers to stay on in education to get qualifications. Cutting now when unemployment is high is educational vandalism,&#8221; he added.</p>
<p>He concluded: &#8220;We need to invest in British genius, in the innovations, the science, the technology that will build the best future &#8211; and help small businesses to employ skilled young people. That&#8217;s the way to avoid another lost generation of wasted young lives.&#8221;</p>
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