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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
I heard that they want to bring back two weeks' work experience for children which Cameron had axed. This sounds like a good idea to me.
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Is this what you're referring to.
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7. Up to 2012, schools and colleges were obliged to ensure that all students undertook
“work-related learning” (usually interpreted as work experience placements) at Key Stage
4 (aged 14–16). This obligation was removed in 2012, as recommended in the Wolf Review
of Vocational Education.The Wolf Review also recommended that the Department for
Education should consider how older students, aged 16–19, could be better provided with
meaningful work experience. This would include those on academic pathways, such as
A-levels, as well as young people on vocational pathways such as apprenticeships which
must contain a practical element. In August 2013, implementing the Wolf Review, DfE
introduced a requirement for all 16–19 study programmes to include work experience
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The requirement just moved to post-16.
I was lucky, decades ago I had a 3 week work experience job as a lab assistant. I doubt most of the possible work experience jobs are like that. I was the first one for that scheme to have a job like that.
There still schemes out there arranging such work experience, including the one that arranged mine. There just aren't going to be the sort of opportunities that kids are eager to do.
Every scheme that has tried to give young people some work experience has been criticised as being "slave labour".
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Originally Posted by spiderplant
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Not quite sure how many skilled Orchestral musicians that or anything else, would produce.
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Musicians – only skilled orchestral musicians who are leaders, principals, sub-principals or numbered string positions, and who meet the standard required by internationally recognised UK orchestras.
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