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Ort's Jump start to jobs impresses Lord Young

October 14, 2013 09:29
John Sergeant and Lord Young (centre) at the Ort dinner

BySandy Rashty, Sandy Rashty

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Former Trade and Industry Secretary Lord Young has told Ort supporters of the impact on government thinking of the charity’s global educational and training network.

Addressing a dinner at London’s Lincoln’s Inn which raised £350,000, the Tory peer recalled taking politicians to an Ort school in Paris “to show what could be done for young people”. Ort principles had also influenced his Manpower Services Commission report — addressing unemployment and training — under then Employment Secretary Norman Tebbit.

On current issues, Lord Young, a former Ort chairman, praised its Jump scheme, which partners ambitious Jewish sixth-formers with people in their chosen profession, from law to medicine and accountancy to journalism.
It was “critically important”, he said. “When you’re at school, you don’t know what goes on at work. It’s a mystery.

“We live in a world where more and more young people work for themselves. They need a skill set that the education system doesn’t provide. That’s what Jump does.”