The China Effect

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That is why our current system is failing so many, some people are skilled in using their hands whilst others can crunch numbers but the current system pushes them all to get a degree. The most daft being for nurses where it is as much people skills as anything and to become a nurse should not require a degree, maybe to progress to a certain level a degree would be needed but for many why.

Long ago, my girlfriend - then a volunteer teacher in the New Hebrides - decided that teaching was "not for her". I suggested nursing instead. I proposed the only school I'd heard of: the Nightingale School, at St. Thomas' Hospital. The first, oldest and most prestigious nursing school in the world. She applied. They fell over themselves to accept her, because she had got an A Level ! She started, from day one, on the wards – mixing hands-on learning with classes in medicine and health science. She rose subsequently to become Secretary to the Royal College of Nursing.

Nowadays, you can't even apply to the Nightingale School except as a graduate.