National Internship Scheme
Labour's proposed National Internship Scheme got me thinking. Should agriculture get involved?
Already it looks as though one or two major companies (such as Barclays) are interested in exploring ways to alleviate the potential problem of 400,000 graduates not finding jobs this summer.
Agriculture as we know is suffering from a lack of new blood, and maybe the UK farming unions could work together as farming's "default" employer, to use this scheme . How good would it be to exploit the recession to position agriculture for the next generation?
It looks as though the government isn't offering any money, but it might be worth Kendall et al sounding out the skills secretary John Denham...