... Curriculum teaching, higher education, vocational training etc. Statistics2 show that educated people are more successful in finding employment (see figure 1.). Those with ''level 4 and above'' qualifications have an unemployment rate of 2.3% compared with those who have no qualifications 5.4% (DfES, 2003). Education it seems is vital to regeneration, made even more worse for those disadvantaged and disengaged communities: 'The main problems for education in areas of deprivation are: low standards attained by pupils, the difficult circumstances in which schools operate and the problems which have to be tackled by local education authorities and other services' (Renewal.net, 2002). This view has been echoed by the current Prime Minister Tony Blair: ''The talent of the people has to be set free, not from the 80s problems of too much state interference, inflexible labour markets, too high taxes for top achievers; but from problems Mrs Thatcher failed to tackle: the bonds ...

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