Apprenticeship? What a joke!

[newshound]

You get me there, I'll have a look at it!

[ARW]

It's not like you to be so nice. I will also offer him the best of luck

Or do you suspect that this bit of the link

Daniel takes up the story: "I'd already done some work with the Neighbourhood's Team and had learnt a lot of useful skills that I can now transfer to my paid job. I'm really grateful to both of the ward councillors for giving this funding to help get me a job." is just bullshit and he was told what to say?

[spuorgelgoog]

Better than being a rubbish-apprentice collector like Adam.

Note I did not say a rubbish apprentice-collector.

Owain

[Nightjar]

On 17/07/2013 21:34, newshound wrote: ...

They changed about 20 years ago and I don't think anybody who knew what apprenticeships were thought that modern apprenticeships would last as a title very long. Their predecessors had been youth opportunity programme, which survived five years, youth training scheme, which lasted six years and, finally, youth training, which managed just three years.

Colin Bignell

[Bill Wright]

Obviously not. But it does owe everyone a fair chance.

Bill

[Bill Wright]

The richer ones have often married too early, when they were still poor. As a result their wives are fat and ugly and highly unsophisticated and treat working class people like dirt. They even try to treat me like dirt, and I'm middle class and also much cleverer than they are so my piss taking goes unnoticed by them.

Bill

[Bill Wright]

What about the 'engineer' sent to me by my gas supplier? She was 34 and inappropriately dressed. She was unable to figure out the capacity of my boiler despite it being written on a plate under the front cover.

Bill

[harryagain]

Picking litter off the street should be done by claimant benificiaries before they get any money It is work for retards and the idle-at-school.

[harryagain]

Apprentices always went to college/night school. For the last century at least.

[Thomas Prufer]

She was *not* sent by the gas supplier, but by the boys down't'pub who chipped in for the very special gift of a visit by a highly trained professional and you thought she was there to service the boiler...?

Thomas Prufer

[Dave Liquorice]

It will be soon unless HMG have quitely dropped that proposal.

[Mark]

Tell that to the w^^^^bankers.

[Mark]

Whereas I have no class ;-)

[Mark]

And what happens to those who used to be paid to do this?

[Mark]

Don't forget the hyped-up stories to suit some hidden agenda.

[tim.....]

has she magic-ed up some government budget for this

AIUI the last tranche of money for apprenticeships was well oversubscribed (from employers) suggesting that there is no shortage of willing employers. Though whether they were real apprenticeships instead of made up ones, I have no idea

tim

[bert]

I'd love to be a recycled executive.

[tim.....]

the fact that there is no fundamentally difficult skill to learn here.

tim

[Nightjar]

They end up on benefits, picking up litter.

Colin Bignell

[tim.....]

in your biz, perhaps

I bet that it does in the made up apprenticeships