Education can’t make up for inadequacies in other policies that continue to cause mass unemployment.
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Nursing has long been seen as a vocation, not a skill. This impacts nursing staff and patients both.
A few anecdotes about dodgy private training colleges don’t mean the whole system is broken.
Recent weeks have seen various horror stories of the workings of dodgy private providers of vocational education and training, including the latest: a recall of certificates due to concerns of sub-par standards in these institutions.
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