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This PASCAL Policy Insight paper has been submitted in response to a stakeholder consultation by the EU Committee of the Regions  on an EU policy paper on Rethinking Education:

Abstract: Whilst there are unresolved debates about the best way of calculating levels of youth unemployment, there is general consensus that rates are rising, and particularly so in those countries seriously affected by the current financial crisis, to the point where a ‘lost generation’ is at risk of being denied access to employment  and to other aspects of adulthood and citizenship .   There is no clear policy response from national governments beyond the extension of the repertoire of measures which have been tried with little success to date.  Nor is there a clear perspective from research about ‘what works’ among the approaches currently on offer.