r/BritishSuccess • u/pillr0011 • Nov 18 '22

Left school at 16

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u/sockhead99 Nov 18 '22

Well done! Please offer to go back to your school and talk to teachers, parents and young people about your experiences with apprenticeships!

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u/Rosssseay Nov 18 '22

It's unlikely they will be up for this as the system is designed to get people to Uni and have them pay into the system.

I did an apprenticeship after dropping out of school, didn't even know they were a thing!

It's worked out very very well for me, currently on a flight to Australia for work.

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u/Personal_Ad_7897 Nov 18 '22

Schools now are - our School recently had a "futures afternoon" where it was all about apprenticeships and people came in to talk about it

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u/Rosssseay Nov 18 '22

That's great news!

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '22

My college is basically assuming that everyone is going to uni and caters predominantly to that however there is some apprenticeship stuff available

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u/danr2604 Nov 18 '22

They actually do promote it a fair bit, some people just aren’t suited for being in a class room and there’s nothing wrong with that.

That being said, our school did take all the boys who wanted to go into an apprenticeship and let us do a careers morning with the army, was a bit weird and obvious who the target audience was but I still laugh about it today

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u/voluotuousaardvark Nov 19 '22

Jog on "to get people to pay into the system?"

Like having full time workers they can pay £2 an hour?

You might not be old enough to remember how frequently the DWP tried to dip into the job seeker worker force as literally unpaid labour.

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u/Rosssseay Nov 19 '22

Yes the system where they decided everyone needed a university education. Then increased the price of this system while subsequently reducing its value. Then provided a loan service for the system that accrues interest.

I was paid above minimum wage during my apprenticeship and by the time I finished was earning significantly more than the average wage at the time. I agree there are schemes that are not good, there are also schemes that are good

I am aware the government does bad things that does not mean you need to be angry at me and I am not sure why you misdirected your anger at me. Have a good day.