Nearly nine in ten young people will live and work abroad in the coming years despite more than half having no language skills, new research has found.

Read: Ninety per cent of young people will live abroad.

Maybe I'm missing the point but how is having more young people able to speak a second language vital to the success of the UK economy when 90% of them want to live and work abroad? Because they will earn and spend abroad too. Even assuming 90% is an overestimate, I would think that it would be mostly the more intelligent and educated young people who would be the most willing and able to move abroad - the sort of people we can least afford to lose. If the survey came up with the result that most of our young people want to commit to this country, then I can see Jim Knight's point. Learning languages in this case would simply mean we were more able to receive foreign visitors better - such as will be needed when the Olympics comes to town.

I saw this reported in a national newspaper - how many more dumb pointless surveys will there be like this?!

550 young people aged 11-18 were interviewed - isn't that the same as just going into one secondary school and asking them who fancies living abroad in the future?! How much weight do you place on the dreams of an 11 year old to one day live abroad - years before they've even begin to properly consider what they might do in adult life?

But somehow this drivel makes national headlines - please stop it you just encourage more time and money to be wasted on other pointless "research" - what next a national youth clubs charity reporting findings that youth clubs are good?!........