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Farnborough & Aldershot LinkedIn Group was formed to encourage Business Engagement helping millennials (18-24 year olds) learn, grow & prosper. The objective to help Young people be better-equipped for life and learn valuable knowledge about a range of potential real-life scenarios networking with business activists. “Millennials,” “Generation Y,” “Generation WE,” “The Boomerang Generation,” “The Peter Pan Generation” — go by many names and were born roughly between 1980 and 2000. https://business.linkedin.com/talent-solutions/blog/2013/12/8-millennials-traits-you-should-know-about-before-you-hire-them

Smashing LinkedIn Statistics to Know in 2019. The network has 303 million active monthly users, 40% of which visit the site daily. 90 million senior-level influencers and 63 million decision makers use LinkedIn. ... 46% percent of the social media traffic to B2B company sites is from LinkedIn

Why is Business Engagement important? On Monday 7 January, Onward published a new policy paper on higher education funding. It argues for a new graduate tax cut to halve the amount that graduates repay on their student loans and a reduction in low value university degrees that deliver weak earnings for graduates and poor value for money for taxpayers.

The paper, authored by Neil O’Brien MP, Will Tanner and Guy Miscampbell, contains a new analysis of official DfE data on long-term earnings outcomes for higher education, which reveals that:

• Between 18 and 25 per cent of graduates are studying degrees which fail to deliver a lifetime earnings premium that justifies the ￡50,000 cost of a student loan.
• In 2015-16, 40 per cent of graduates were enrolled in courses which led to median earnings of less than the student loan repayment threshold of ￡25,000 after five years. 10 per cent of students were enrolled in courses with median earnings of less than ￡25,000 ten years after they have graduated. This represents 134,000 students each year who won’t be paying back anything even ten years after they leave university, yet will have accumulated significant interest.
• 1 in 5 graduates are no better off five years after graduating than if they had chosen to do a non-university route, such as an apprenticeship instead, when foregone earnings and apprenticeship premium is taken into account.
• According to exclusive polling for the report, 44% of people believe that “there are too many students going to university”, compared to just 25% who believe there are not enough. The number who believe there are too many student places rises to 47% of those with a Bachelor’s degree, suggesting that those who go to university do not feel they receive the benefits of doing so.

Suggestion: No-cost/Low-Cost LinkedIn platform with no General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Compliance issues linked to low/zero cost monthly networking events with guest key-note speakers from the local business community.

• LinkedIn’s basic service is free for young people to join and is the world's largest professional network with more than 610 million users in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. https://about.linkedin.com/
• LinkedIn Members include Business leaders who want skilled F&A millennials with real world experience and can share Posts to the F&A Group.
• LinkedIn offers no-cost Cascade Sharing of the events (each members shares to own network) in partnership with the Business Leaders own PR team. Expect network, group and events to start small and grow over time – it is not a short-term fix and lots to learn by very-one. 

Have fun but don’t forget to join the LinkedIn Group “Farnborough & Aldershot - Encouraging Business Engagement helping millennials learn, grow & prosper” https://www.dhirubhai.net/groups/8774376/

Alan MacKelworth 

LinkedIn profile: https://www.dhirubhai.net/in/Amacltd