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Originally Posted by Sylvanfan
I think we do a terrible job of promoting where people can go if they choose a career in the trades.
I also think a lot of places are not fostering innovation, or using the latest technology. Even when they do get an advanced piece of equipment, do they follow up and figure out how to maximize what it can do?
Even seemingly simple things to improve processes often die at the idea stage because not enough people in leadership positions have the wherewithal to implement them.
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As a youth worker it annoys me that BC has 4 universities and one institute of technology, that our high schools utterly discount student outcomes that don't end up in uni'.
It all fails to recognize that 2/3rds of all students are not going to university and are essentially written off in our present system, but that the more degrees you hand out the less they are worth, we have managed to get to the stage where we are charging kids 40 or 50 thousand to get a BA that is now seen by employers as no more than a grade 12.
When I left school in the late 70's you never needed a degree to be a cop or a social worker, you trained on the job and frankly they were better at the job.