On Sun, 11 Feb 2018 22:23:17 +0000, Fredxx wrote:

On 11/02/2018 14:56, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Archibald Tarquin Blenkinsopp wrote:
Is the current vogue for every young person gaining a meja degree
actually doing any good for the country?

No, In my view a lot of the people coming out of Uni with degree's are
filling jobs that have not traditionally required that level of
qualification.

Even more to the point, traditional skills like plumbing, electrics
mechanics etc that were once acquired via an apprenticeship seem to be
looked down upon by many. Resulting in those skills having to be imported
from other countries where blue collar jobs are still desired.

You could also blame industry. Why waste profits training staff when you
can get the taxpayer to do it? No point in planning for the future, when
there are present day shareholders to be satisfied.

I don't blame industry at all.

Are you saying the employee should be tied to the company until such
point he has paid all the training cost back?

Training is a personal / government responsibility.

Far from it, but I think it's a pity employers don't see it as a
direct advantage to the company.


Training is a personal responsibility, I paid for my 17th edition
course and exam.

It helps the company I work for, but I will not get the cost refunded.
The exam was at a weekend in my own time, and I will get not one penny
more for passing.

Not many employees can spare the funds or adjust their hours to do
this.

Government should be more involved, no doubt about it. It wont happen
though.

Not sure how accurate it was, but I was told that my original heavily
state sponsored college education was brought about because of the
unions.


AB