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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mad as Fish" data-source="post: 139455" data-attributes="member: 396">And that is of growing concern to many in industry, in fact, It's probably no exageration to call it a crisis.It crops up  regularly in conversations I have yet nobody can quite put their finger on the reason why school leavers are shunnung apprenticeships. However, there is a vague consensus gathering around the notion that they want work to be an extension of social media,  all shiny screens and gossip, actually getting their hands dirty and attempting to understand how to do anything more mechanical than turning on a tap is simply not cool.And yet, get yourself qualified as a plumber or electrician and the money is whatever you have the cheek to ask for! Indeed, I am told that youngsters would prefer less money to having to do physical work, it's a status thing, yet they will soon start complaining that they can't afford a house and live off mammy until they are in their forties!The education system has a lot to answer for here as it is focussed on churning out people with degrees, and organisations are wanting people with degrees as an ass covering exercise, but it leaves few people available to actually keep the kip running. My answer would be to make degrees mean something again, rather than 50% of school leavers obtaining one, make them harder so that only 20% will achieve that level, sure, it won't look good on international league tables of educational performance, but that may well come to be seen as  good thing.</blockquote>

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