Employers need employees with the right abilities to do the job. Is education fitting the nation’s workforce with the right abilities? When we compete on the world stage, how do we develop the right skills to grow the economy?
Posted by: Jonathan Cuffe | 29.08.2008 06:39am
As an employer I'm in the middle, I support Lating and the classics and will happily give someone a job if they have an a-level in either latin or greek, it shows more than mere erudite learning, a desire for the best from an early age, which is why I don't support "these people" - the idea that they work long and hard to get a piece of paper is their own families fault, I agree that some people do come from bad places and deserve a chance, fine. But the majority are learning later in life because they wouldn't do it when the rest of us did, slowing many of us down in the process so I don't accept them, simply because I'm not funded to help people 20 years behind where they should be.
Also: I don't accept GCSE's or A-levlels in media, drama, IT (because you shouldn't have to prove you know it nowadays), art, sports science and so on. Its not just the faux vocational degrees, its also the faux qualifications before that - and it is those, by pretending to be worth something, that keep the majority as epsilons