The China Effect

[spanner48]

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.

 

[Ross Buchanan]

I said to my kids -"you have to be competitive. If you can compete against a computer in India, great. Otherwise you've got to do what a computer can't do"
So far, one works for the national trust, ones a carpenter, one is a computer spod.
Next one is a barmaid and learning stained glass making. Number 5 wants to farm.
All working and earning. Only one with a degree is Mrs B, who has never really had a job!

 

[JackEasy]

It was an assertion based on human nature, a quick google and the data tends to support my assertion, but I could just have been lucky and I've cherry picked something that suits.

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Or perhaps I don't need to cherry pick, as the next 3 or 4 results and news articles all discuss the trend. eg.
https://www.china-briefing.com/news...china-trends-and-implications-for-businesses/

F.

I’m good friends with the previous plant manager of the Bosch industrial boiler plant in Wuhan.
I asked him how wages of workers were at the plant. He told me a qualified welder used to be relatively cheap but in 2018 when I asked him, they were gold dust. Very rare and very well paid as there was massive competition.