I think that these are the ideas:

charities will be better at doing the aid than the government will be (on that they might be right... although the provision will be very patchy).

Everyone's idea is always that in the West everyone can be reskilled to do the high power, high tech jobs in the knowledge economy and if only we did something then this would happen.

Retraining is great - and for some people will work. But the question is always - to do what? The era of mass well paying blue collar jobs is practically dead as between automation and competition from abroad there's just not the number. Or pretend that those who struggled at school will be much better at learning academic concepts with a 20 year break.

The UK's logic is that graduates are paid more. Therefore if everyone was a graduate, everyone would earn more. Oh, graduate salaries are dropping? How could that be?