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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet
Oh dear. We may actually have British people doing vocational training for occupations like plumbing, decorating, becoming electricians and other skilled tradesman instead of doing random humanities degrees and having to import tradesman from Eastern Europe.
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While I agree vocational training is needed, the infrastructure for implementing it does not exist, as far as I can see?
I think we need to drastically improve the interface between industry & education to the benefit of this country - so I agree that running Universities on a financial basis that relies on overseas students is farcical. (Please note that isn't intended to exclude overseas students, just that the emphasis needs changing)
In my opinion we need to involve employers much more in the education process - and if an Humanities degree is useless in that scenario, then so be it ...