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“如果我们把未就业，也不在受教育或培训的年轻人归为一个单一类别，像用单词怪胎定义个人一样用缩写啃老族来定义他们，我们就忽略了年轻人在生活中所要面对的真实画面的复杂性。”教育部长雷顿安德鲁斯认为啃老族正在成为一个名词，并被用来标记年轻人是一件危险的事。

他还说，“如何鼓励年轻人从事教育，或帮助那些失业的人重新进入劳动市场，这里没有一个解决方案。我们唯一确定的是，未经考虑他们的个人需求而对他们贴标签和分类并不会对他们拥有一个繁荣的未来有所帮助。”

我选择研究啃老族数量不断增长的背景，因为这是与我工作直接相关的事件。研究显示，啃老族的数量每年都在增加，他们的一生大约会消耗政府97000英镑 [1]。从2001年开始的过去十年中，这个数量无疑大大增加了。威尔士议会政府（WAG）意识到这个问题，通过研究我了解到，已经有很多关于为什么会存在这种问题以及怎样来解决这种问题的探索。

'If we think and label young people not in employment, Education or training as a single category, using the shorthand NEET to define an individual like the word geek, we miss the complexity of the true picture and the individuals young people face in life', Education Minister Leighton Andrews warning of the danger of the phrase NEET becoming a noun and therefore labeling young people.

He also said 'There is no one solution which will encourage young people to engage with education, or to help those out of work to get back into the labour market. One thing we do know is that labeling them and categorising them without consideration for their individual needs is not going to help them have a prosperous future'.

I have chosen to research the background into the growing number of young people who are NEET's (Not in Education, Employment or Training） as this is an issue which is directly relating to my workplace, Wrexham ITeC. Research has shown that the each year the number of NEET's is growing and that they could cost the economy approximately ￡97,000 over a lifetime [1] . These figures from 2001 have no doubt increased significantly in the past 10 years. The Welsh Assembly Government (WAG) are aware of the problems and through my research of the subject I was able to see that many studies have been undertaken to look at why such a problem exists and what is being done to tackle the problem.

Barriers to learning

There are many barriers that young people face that will affect their engagement in employment or education. Particularly for the students I teach, it is often the case that 'education is largely an alternative to unemployment' (Armitage et. al. 1999, p 53 & 54)'. I have learnt how important it is to understand a student's motivation in order to overcome barriers to learning, especially self-imposed barriers.

One issue that may be affecting the growing numbers of NEET's discovered by the research report 'Barriers to participation in education and training is that 'almost half of the group found the decision about what to do after Year 11 difficult, mainly because they could not decide what to do'. This fundamental problem has arisen because they felt the routes were too broad or that they felt they did not have enough advice or guidance on what would be best suited to their needs.

Another barrier to entering training or education is often financial implications including transport issues. 34% of young people who did not go on to education or training after Year 11 said they would have if they had received more money to cover the cost of transport. Many young people identified the cost of transport rather than the availability of transport as barrier. Funding is available to help towards this cost through Work based learning and FE colleges often provide transport to their centres, however it is