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More people have no qualifications in unemployment blackspots

Mon, 11/02/2013 - 13:06 -- nick

More people in areas with high unemployment have no qualifications than in areas with low joblessness.

A report by the University and College Union into qualifications levels in 632 parliamentary constituencies found that over a quarter of working age people in employment blackspots had no cetificates.

40 of the 50 areas with the most unqualified people were in the north, west midlands, Scotland and Wales which have higher unemployment rates, although the research found pockets of deprivation in every region.

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