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Hodge Hill Features...; ... on BBC website story
Topic Started: Jul 22 2011, 07:28 AM (197 Views)
pabloc
Geoff Horsfield
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There are more people without qualifications in Birmingham Hodge Hill than in Cambridge, Winchester, Wimbledon, Buckingham, Romsey, Leeds North West and four other constituencies put together.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-14233114

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Trevor Francis
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pabloc
Jul 22 2011, 08:28 AM
There are more people without qualifications in Birmingham Hodge Hill than in Cambridge, Winchester, Wimbledon, Buckingham, Romsey, Leeds North West and four other constituencies put together.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-14233114

It's hardly surprising that the above areas are better off in respect of qualifications than Hodge Hill. The percentages can be misleading, look at the areas that you've quoted they are either small in population and/or contain a university that makes up the large part of employment. The perfect example is Cambridge - affluent area with a well known university with many more businesses in the locality that would attract post grads not just under grads.

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Barking, Ilford South, Romford, Hornchurch, Walthamstow, West Ham and East Ham are all in the lowest-achieving group of London seats.


The above areas happen to be where I work (post graduate working in HE). Apart from being the poorest qualification areas in greater London they are also amongst the poorest in the capital and I'd guess that the main occupation in this side of London is service industry based.
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Olivier Tebily
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It's the majority of the West Midlands... 26 of 29 below the national average

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-14247229
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Frank Worthington
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I would also add that they are including those 16-64, and for those 45+ it was not that uncommon to leave schools with no qualifications, but still manage to now have a decent job as a tradesperson.

Qualifications are more important now though - leaving schools without any GCSEs over C, especially in Maths and English, is very worrying.

I'd worry more about the levels of unemployment in "Birmingham Hodge Hill" - I know employability is linked to qualifications - but there are well-qualified people on paper out of work aswell, especially those qualified in things that there is not much demand for.
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Mikael Forssell
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What is not taken into account is the 'brain drain' factor. There are many thousands of Brummies living and working in the south who are improving that areas figures.
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Frank Worthington
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Must be more Villa fans about than I thought :kiss:
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