O/T. All these strikes

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Regarding Nurses and university. I’ve often wondered why it’s deemed necessary for the modern nurse to attend uni , previously nurses did most of there training actually caring and learning on actual hospital wards and the system seemed to work well. I’m not just targeting nurses , my wife started her nursing career at the old Royal Hospital in Sheffield . My point being a lot of careers would be better served by apprenticeship instead of uni.

Lincs, that's entirely what my Wife says. You learn on the job not out of a book or in lectures. The old fashioned way!

My Wife started he nursing career in Oct 81 and she said, plus I know, she took two exams a year just to reflect what she had learned whilst practicing. After two years the exams stopped when you qualified and were set free to nurse. Her view is that all this academic work they now want to see before you graduate is totally unnecessary.

It's no different to wanting to join the Police force. You need a degree to enlist, failing that you attend a two year course in order to obtain the required degree. So picture this, wet behind the ears 20 year old Johnny/Jenny leaves Uni with a Bsc in Chemistry but they are straight in because they have a degree.

Meanwhile, a similar aged young man/woman who have been in full time employment for three years say in customer service and learning how to deal with face on situations/life etc, are denied entry because they haven't got a degree. I know which one I'd be looking to employ. Kids fresh out of Uni straight in a police uniform with little or no life skills, no thanks.