Schools and Colleges Today
Filling forms instead of teaching - Teacher A
We need exams with less writing. - Technology teacher
Funding and accountability constrains training. - Overheard near City and Guilds
Nurse Training
Planning my escape - Nurse A
Decline in patient care - Nurse B
Practical experience needed - Nurse C
Nursing - Project 2000 - Ex-student nurse D
The Profession of Nursing - Nurse E: Senior Lecturer in Community Nursing
Who's in charge? - Retired Consultant A
Nurses too casual - Patient A
More real nurses needed - Andrew Heenan
Education gets the blame again - Senior lecturer
Getting some experience before training - Nurse F
A pity about NVQs - Mike Matheson
A disaster waiting to happen - Ex-nurse G
Return to the bedside - Freedom to Nurse
Project 2000 created by a self-serving clique - Ian Brown
The ideals of project 2000 are very sound, but have been badly implemented? - Frances Wheatley
'Professionalism' and shift patterns damaging patient care - Nurse H
NHS Solutions - Patrick Cooper-Duffy
After Project 2000 - Nurse I
Caring is top of the list - Nurse J
Should the nursing profession be attracting these people? - Another ex-student nurse
Diplomas for the working class, degrees for the middle class - Staff Nurse
Patients need knowledge to get good treatment - Nurse K
Weeding out the students who are not emotionally suited to nursing - Janette Trainor
Are Graduates up to the Job?
Educated to manage the dole office - Peter Rook
Graduates with the social skills of a caterpillar - Roger Hind
A degree of experience required? - Rosemary Lythgoe
Experience needed in the construction industry - Steelwork Inspector
Training for Leisure - Lindsay Webster
The English Disease - Senior Engineer
Too posh to do a proper job? - Andy Eadie
Subsidising Beowulf - John Oxley
Life long learning (Could do better!) - Manager and Business Analyst
Graduates are not too posh.They are too institutionalised - Roger Hind
Has IT education failed?
Golden rule for IT managers: Never hire the graduate. - Ben Daglish
IT education - Computer Weekly reports. - Ben Daglish
Vocational Training
No major employers take on apprentices - Andy Eadie
Traditional crafts gone - Steve Relf
NVQs in Travel - Travel Agent
It really isn't that simple - College Lecturer
I earn alot. I am skilled. I learnt it all on the job - Builder, Aged 25
NVQs - forcing good people out of important jobs - Experienced worker in care
NVQs - we will loose some of the best workers. - Recruitment for care
Media Studies
Media training creates jobs for trainers - George Courtice
No jobs for students of media studies - Barry Stephenson
Media education that gets jobs - Phil Markey, Head of Media, JMU
Learning on the job is best - Carolyn Hodgeson, presenter YTV
So much for a linguistics degree - Rosemary Lythgoe
Training should inculcate professional standards - Brian Jenner
Where are the solutions?
Managerialism has ousted professionalism - College Lecturer
Beyond training - Robert Garvey
Evidence and education.
Learn to spell. Forget to think. - Various drunks
Undergraduates lack initiative. - Academic A
Mature students lacked confidence but got firsts. - Musician B
Degree results cannot be taken seriously - Graduate C
I teach how to pass your exam in marketing - Academic D
I CAN SPELL AND THINK, THANK YOU - Nicola Opton
More naked emperors? - Durnks on the train
Wading through the second rate - Mature Research Student
It's like swimming in a luke warm pool. - Lecturer in Marketing
Who's afraid of Alison Wolf? - Faxfn
Alison Wolf and university funding. - Faxfn
Education constrains innovation. - Found on Innovation.gov.uk
Most undergraduates are dead wood. - Postgraduate on the coach
Credentialism and the Diploma Disease
Sponsor your MP's education - Webmaster
More credentials? - Andy Eadie
No FT. No BBC. No comment. - Webmaster
More qualifications for the same job - Found on the Web
What DO universities do?
Introduction: a Quiz. - Webmaster
Philosophers - the Essence. - Jack and Danny
On Philosophy. - Danny