HERE we go again. There's more gimmickry in the education world, when the service desperately needs a period of stability, even consolidation. But now we are to have "specialist schools".
Surely colleges of further education have been performing these functions, using experienced and well-qualified staff for years?
Has Education Secretary Estelle Morris or her minions given any thought to who is going to teach in these proposed "specialist schools"?
There's nothing new under the sun. As long ago as the 1960s, youngsters were allowed day/block release from their schools in order to receive tuition and practical work experience in colleges.
When many of them made choices on their future careers, some of them went on, at 15 years of age, to full-time pre-apprenticeship courses at their link course college.
The Building Pre-Apprenticeship course allowed youngsters to sample many trades. Then at the end of the one-year's course, the students had a choice of which craft before entering employment as apprentices.
Many senior people in the construction industry started their careers on such pre-apprenticeship courses.
COUNTY COUNCILLOR TOM WAREING, Redditch.
n HERE we go again. There's more gimmickry in the education world, when the service desperately needs a period of stability, even consolidation. But now we are to have "specialist schools".
Surely colleges of further education have been performing these functions, using experienced and well-qualified staff for years?
Has Education Secretary Estelle Morris or her minions given any thought to who is going to teach in these proposed "specialist schools"?
There's nothing new under the sun. As long ago as the 1960s, youngsters were allowed day/block release from their schools in order to receive tuition and practical work experience in colleges.
When many of them made choices on their future careers, some of them went on, at 15 years of age, to full-time pre-apprenticeship courses at their link course college.
The Building Pre-Apprenticeship course allowed youngsters to sample many trades. Then at the end of the one-year's course, the students had a choice of which craft before entering employment as apprentices.
Many senior people in the construction industry started their careers on such pre-apprenticeship courses.
COUNTY COUNCILLOR TOM WAREING, Redditch.
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