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Osem	28-01-2008 10:22

An A level with fries please....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7209276.stm

I can see the excuses along the way though...

Flybe - Sorry, your course work has been stuck in fog and has been diverted to Inverness....

Network Rail - Sorry we couldn't mark your papers, the subcontracted staff didn't show up on time and work is going to overrun...

McDonalds - your Diploma is of the highest quality but contains high levels of salt and fat...

:)

So the recognised educational establishments are doing the job properly so we'll get private companies to do it. Whatever next?

Woolly One

28-01-2008 11:22

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It is going to be a tough course

Was Gordon Brown refering to the Diploma or McDonalds food? :)

PeteTheMusicGuy

28-01-2008 11:27

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It does interesting who will be doing it next KFC :p:

tweetypie/8

28-01-2008 11:36

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Originally Posted by Osem (Post 34478464)

g.b.has definitley lost the plot.god help us all.:disturbd:

Druchii

28-01-2008 11:39

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Can i get a cheeseburger instead? My A level already came with too much salt...

No wait, that was sugar-coating.

TheNorm

28-01-2008 12:40

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"Our employees tell us they want the chance to do more formal learning and we're responding to that."

What's wrong with getting a qualification while you are earning money? :shrug:

Osem	28-01-2008 13:08

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Originally Posted by TheNorm (Post 34478524)

What's wrong with getting a qualification while you are earning money? :shrug:

Nothing - school/college/university students do it all the time.

jkat	28-01-2008 15:32

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Originally Posted by TheNorm (Post 34478524)

What's wrong with getting a qualification while you are earning money? :shrug:

nothing wrong with it at all as long as u dont come up with a GCSE with cheese on when you've ordered an A level :)

papa smurf

28-01-2008 16:37

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Originally Posted by jkat (Post 34478626)

nothing wrong with it at all as long as u dont come up with a GCSE with cheese on when you've ordered an A level :)

can you supersize it to a doctorate:rolleyes:

Xaccers

28-01-2008 17:45

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Originally Posted by Woolly One (Post 34478482)

Was Gordon Brown refering to the Diploma or McDonalds food? :)

I think he was refering to FlyBe when he said "you can probably go anywhere"

Nikesh

28-01-2008 19:39

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Is it possible to get a McGreaseCSE? :p:

Maggy

28-01-2008 20:25

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Well considering the government at present pay financially strapped college students up to Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â£30 to attend college and pass A-levels it seems a fairly cheap alternative to me.Getting the bigger business's and future employers to contribute seems a fair way to get more students trained.Who knows maybe they could even offer business degrees as well.It would add new meaning to the phrase working your way through university.

However IF past governments had used any common sense or forward planning then they would have bent over backwards to retain the apprenticeship system in the first place.Bunch of twonks.:rolleyes:

TheNorm

29-01-2008 13:31

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Originally Posted by Incognitas (Post 34478832)

...IF past governments had used any common sense or forward planning ...

:rofl:

Maggy

29-01-2008 16:10

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Originally Posted by TheNorm (Post 34479206)

:rofl:

I did say IF ;)

PeteTheMusicGuy

30-01-2008 14:08

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Maybe one of the big pub chains should get in on this as well. "get drunk as you learn" but I suppose most students do that already anyway

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