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Originally Posted by kernow
You're absolutely right! When I left Secondary modern school in 1957 at the age of 15, 75% at least of the boys of my year went into a trade apprenticeship. Twenty years later nearly half of those boys ran their own business in the trade they'd learnt! Today everybody wants to go to "Uni,"
So we're left with a generation who couldn't knock up a Rabbit hutch! Which delights big business and their puppets the politicians, because skilled "Johny foreigner " is cheap!
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That is a really good point to make Kernow, the desire not just that everyone wants to go to Uni but also that they must go if they are to make something of themselves causes huge problems in this regard. Schools and colleges should be doing more to promote things like apprenticeships.
These people can still do degrees as well as they get older as I am doing now with The OU.