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I think the OP has a good point and we must start to understand the impact of thousands of training centres selling courses to those who believe that setting up a plumbing/gas business is viable in a depression.
Its not a new phenomena - in late nineteenth/early twentieth century New York, there was a battle between plumbing unions and a college which set up to train brickies and plumbers without the need for them to time-serve (in the depression era). The paper was named 'Plumbing the origins of American vocationalism' Taylor & Francis Online :: Plumbing the Origins of American Vocationalism - Labor History - Volume 37, Issue 2
At that time, the unions stepped-in to argue that the safety of people's health was being risked, and there was a compromise - that students did theory in college and practical training at work - this was the foundation of our current system, which is based on American behaviourism. Depressions and recessions throw up get-rich schemes and enterprises to con the unwary and desperate.
The currrent system of allowing people on gas courses with little experience is folly of the highest order - I certainly believe that as crafts-people we learn things that are not necessarily taught - which means what is taught is not necessarily learned or practiced.
I would refer to the current system of education and training as a delusion, and one that working people and those who are desperate to work, have bought into.
There is much more to this than meets the eye, and I hope this post gives some food for thought.
Its not a new phenomena - in late nineteenth/early twentieth century New York, there was a battle between plumbing unions and a college which set up to train brickies and plumbers without the need for them to time-serve (in the depression era). The paper was named 'Plumbing the origins of American vocationalism' Taylor & Francis Online :: Plumbing the Origins of American Vocationalism - Labor History - Volume 37, Issue 2
At that time, the unions stepped-in to argue that the safety of people's health was being risked, and there was a compromise - that students did theory in college and practical training at work - this was the foundation of our current system, which is based on American behaviourism. Depressions and recessions throw up get-rich schemes and enterprises to con the unwary and desperate.
The currrent system of allowing people on gas courses with little experience is folly of the highest order - I certainly believe that as crafts-people we learn things that are not necessarily taught - which means what is taught is not necessarily learned or practiced.
I would refer to the current system of education and training as a delusion, and one that working people and those who are desperate to work, have bought into.
There is much more to this than meets the eye, and I hope this post gives some food for thought.