Outrageous University fees.

[Bassman62]

the route into these trades used to be through apprenticeships but they died in the 80's as a consequence of the polices of the Thatcher government.

 

this is just one aspect of the real deep problem we have in this country, which is that british industry doesn't train people preferring instead to import foreign labour.

There should be more vocational training in school itself, it is a total waste of time trying to teach a fair percentage of pupils the sciences and high level maths.

Time would be better spent on a more realistic approach to the potential of these pupils.

Conning pupils by lowering the qualification levels required for entering university and unfairly building their apirations is unethical.

[Bassman62]

There are not the apprentice ships available like they used to be.

 

Students have to find their own placements, and if they are unable to do so, or they lose their job placement (as a result of the company folding) they are simply thrown off their course.

 

I was teaching numeracy at a local college, and one of the students was 22 months into her 24 month placement. The hairdressers that she was employed by started losing money and folded. As she dod not have a work placement, she could not complete the course. As a result she was thrown off her apprenticeship (with 2 months left) and left with nothing after wasting 2 years of her life persuing something she really wanted to do

Were you teaching numeracy to Hairderssing student or was she on another course.

[Bassman62]

It turns out that the muslim terrorist who blew himself up in Sweden was a UK graduate Bsc in 'Sports Therapy'.

Well that did him and us a great deal of good, I suppose some will argue that we all need some sports therapy (whatever that is) when Wednesday or United lose.

What a waste of space, what waste of our education rescources.