Hi pinto I fully agree with what you say The "government" trend...

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    Hi pinto
    I fully agree with what you say
    The "government" trend for the last 40 odd years is to pass out bits of "required" paper which rarely equate to quality of the work

    In the old days --- (sorry but true) an apprentice would do 4 or 5 years of training
    They would also do at the same time 4 or 5 years of schooling

    At their job their "trainer/boss" was only allowed to have a max of 2 or 3 apprentices under his control, they had inspectors on the road checking the standards and work they were doing

    They were paid on a sliding scale based on the year of their training and in the first year they received so little money that their boss could afford to have them do nothing, just watch and learn, compare that with now where a first year apprentice gets close to full money so has to earn his/her wages from day one, no time to learn

    The result was Australia turned out tradesmen that were accepted as top workers anywhere in the world
    Naturally not everyone was a crack tradesman but IMHO the percentage was very high

    What have we now ? no proper apprenticeship, a TAFE system which is focused on making money not teaching. A system which does not encourage a worker to do any better than he has to in order to keep his/her job, you get paid the same good or bad due to our pitiful wages system
    Last edited by kingpins: 18/08/19
 
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