Useless experience

4th October 2002, 1:00am

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Useless experience

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Tony Blair this week turned his back on the school his party once cherished. Jon Slater and Warwick Mansell report from Blackpool

SCHOOLS should scrap work experience, according to one of the Government’s own advisers. Andy Westwood of the Work Foundation and a member of the Government’s workforce development taskforce - said the practice was “marginal” to young people’s education. Schools should be “much smarter” in involving business in the curriculum, he added.

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