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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2011 19:52:31 GMT -1
Announced earlier as part of John Swinney's budget, funding for 25,000 apprenticeships plus a few million towards additional 'college' places for those that want them and bursaries to allow access for students with ability from poorer backgrounds. 'Earn while you learn' has to be attractive to many kids who have no desire to go to FE but know where their vocation lies and are ready to get in about the world of work from the day they leave school. Bliar's ridiculous aspiration to get 50% of kids into 'university' was total bollocks from the get go. IMO. I've never understood the recent fixation with making over every FE institution into a 'university'. Many many friends of mine as teens went on day-release to Paisley or Glasgow College of Technology (now University of West of Scotland/Caledonian Uni) and came out highly- trained and ready for work, whether in electrical engineering, plumbing, surveying, ophthalmology, pharmacy, nursing, or social work. A good call by the SNP today, albeit with added value from the LibDems. The Labour party of course just continue to whinge rather than applaud any progress towards us being a better country. No surprise there then
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Post by ozneil on Feb 9, 2011 20:43:15 GMT -1
here we have 2 ways of training kids in my profession.
4 years full time Uni & 2 lots of 6months pracrical or 6 years part time (1.5 days a week)
I advise the latter, Better training. The guys trained part time get paid & command higher salaries on graduation
as an aside.
We find the lecturers here are lazy & issue same assignments year in year out.
Part of the deal being employed here is that the text books belong to the firm (we buy them) and passed on to new cadets. In addition, the kids, nothing to do with the management, keep their assignments in the office. Unfortunately younger kids dont know the meaning of plagerism
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