Good morning. Thousands of young people will be arriving at school in the next few hours to collect their GCSE(英国普通中等教育证书) results. Many will continue to sixth form(英国高中阶段（16-18岁）), others will be heading to apprenticeships(学徒制，边工作边学习), and some will spend the next few years relentlessly(不懈地，持续地) pitching their CVs(投递简历，推销自己) to AI bots.
早上好。再过几个小时，成千上万的年轻人将抵达学校领取他们的普通中等教育证书考试成绩。许多人将继续升入高中，另一些人将走向学徒岗位，还有一些人将在未来几年里不遗余力地向人工智能机器人投递简历。
An estimated one million young people in the UK aged 16 to 24 are not in education, employment or training of any kind. These “Neets(尼特族（不上学不就业不培训）)”, as they’re known, have preoccupied(使全神贯注，使忧心忡忡) policymakers since the early 1990s. But their number is now higher than ever, an indication of economic inactivity(经济不活跃（指未就业）), low growth and rising welfare costs that worry civil servants in Whitehall(白厅，英国政府核心部门所在地). Alan Milburn, formerly health secretary under Tony Blair’s government, is now conducting a high-profile(高调的，备受瞩目的) review of Neets. His final report is expected later this year.
据估计，英国有100万16至24岁的年轻人没有接受任何形式的教育、就业或培训。这些被称为“尼特族”的年轻人自20世纪90年代初以来一直困扰着政策制定者。但如今他们的人数比以往任何时候都高，这预示着经济不活跃、增长缓慢和福利成本上升，令白厅的公务员们忧心忡忡。曾在托尼·布莱尔政府担任卫生大臣的艾伦·米尔本，目前正在对尼特族进行一项高调审查。他的最终报告预计将于今年晚些时候发布。
The Neet issue exemplifies(例证，是……的典型) how an increasingly unhappy, isolated generation of young people are becoming detached from(脱离，疏远) social institutions and losing faith in their own futures. For today’s First Edition(《首要版》（卫报新闻简报名称）), I spoke to psychologist Mark Mon-Williams who leads a study following the lives and development of 13,500 children in Bradford(布拉德福德（英国城市）), about what’s going wrong for Britain’s youth. That’s after the headlines.
尼特问题例证了日益不快乐、孤立的年轻一代如何逐渐脱离社会机构，并对自己的未来失去信心。在今天的《首要版》中，我采访了心理学家马克·蒙-威廉姆斯，他领导一项追踪布拉德福德13500名儿童生活和发展的研究，探讨英国年轻人究竟出了什么问题。这些内容将在头条新闻之后呈现。
Five big stories
五大要闻
In depth: A generation falling through the cracks
深度报道：一代人正从缝隙中滑落
Why are young people so unhappy?
为什么年轻人如此不快乐？
Has the pandemic made this worse?
疫情是否使情况恶化？
What needs to change?
需要改变什么？
What else we’ve been enjoying
我们还喜欢的内容
Sport
体育
The front pages
头版头条
The Latest
最新消息
Will Andy Burnham get rough sleepers off streets by Christmas?
安迪·伯纳姆能否在圣诞节前让露宿者离开街头？
Cartoon of the day | Nicola Jennings
每日漫画 | 尼古拉·詹宁斯
The Upside
积极面
Bored at work?
工作无聊吗？