mary1947

just sent reply from Wednesday

Ben are you sorted out yet?   are you going to be at the meetup ?   

Wife sorted thanks Mary.........meeting depends on state of my voice among other things.......

Ah Mary, I really feel for you. I appreciate that you struggle with your condition and it’s just not fair at all.  I wish you well and truly hope you feel better soon, I know it must be very upsetting for you but you’ve got a good man supporting you.  Sending love your way x

cheers LizzieM

You must try your best to get to more meet-ups Mary, we missed you.  

Dear Sue

We did miss you and Ron yesterday.  Perhaps your mobility will improve before the next meet-up?  Or we’ll all have to turn up at your house for a get together!

Love Margie x

No Mary, unfortunately, I did not see his performance which must have been an experience!

I did, however, see Stan Laural and Olly Hardy at the Empire Theatre during their national tour. Strangely enough I'm unable to remember the details of their act. I think both were in failing health at the time.

Some time later I did see Lonnie Donnegan at the Theatre Royal.

It's nice to know that you're younger than me.

cheers Alpha!   It was my hubby that saw Bill Hayley  Me i bunked off school to see the beetles at the Palais de' dance.at lunch time.

mary x

I'm still trying to figure out last years quiz.  

love you big ears

Hi Mary,

Mine were D32/33 as far as I recall, but it was way back around 15 years ago and I always hated doing assessments.  Far too much paper for my liking! 

All Careers Advisers then had a Degree (In anything) and a Post Graduate Diploma in Careers Guidance. ( That was the mimimum.. most of us had other 'Professional ' qualifications too).

But those who did the more basic work with young people ( Called 'Employment Assistants) had no specific qualifications related to Career Guidance and mostly had Admin type qualifications. So, When NVQ's in Advice and Guidance came along, we were all 'trained up' as Assessors and all of our Employment Assistants were trained to NVQ Level 3.  There was no opportunity for 'cheating', even if we'd wanted to, because our internal assessments were subject to verification by an external person.  Can't recall.. but they may have been called ' External Verifiers' or similar.

When it comes to qualifications abroad.  I don't know how other countries dealt with UK qualifications in general, but it was always understood that Germany in particular took a far more organised and rigorous view of occupational training.  They don't suffer from the snobbery which afflicts 'vocational' v 'academic' education that occurs here, and value both just as highly.

I worked alongside German Technicians when I was a 'mechanic' on German made Textile machinery in the 1970s.  They were all very highly trained.. and for example, they didn't separate people for electrical v mechanical stuff.  They all did both.

So, I wouldn't be surprised that your Brother's qualification wasn't enough to get him a Vehicle Mechanics job. However, it may be that he could have 'upgraded' his qualifications and got his existing ones taken into account.  He'd have needed the right advice and information though and I've no idea whether it would have been available to him.

I mostly came across the 'problem' of 'foreign' qualifcations when I worked in Adult Careers Guidance in the early 2000's. We had an organiisation called UK NARIC which would look at foreign qualifcations and give an 'equivalence' to UK quals so that the holder and others then knew where they stood and what to do next.

UK NARIC still exists:   https://www.naric.org.uk/naric/About%20Us.aspx

In fact it seems to have grown a bit.  This dosn't surprise me, because our wonderful Govt. have a record of cutting training places here, so that the likes of the NHS, Care Sector and Catering/Hospitality sector are obliged to recruit from abroad, so the issue of 'Foreign' qualifications is more prominent these days.

As for EU wide cooperation.. There were certainly a number of joint academic initiatives in place, such as 'ERASMUS'  https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/node_en

And SOCRATES:  http://www.socrates-project.eu/

There were no doubt others too, but I suppose that's something else that the Brexiteers are determined to remove us from, even assuming they know they exist.. which is doubtful.

I'm not so sure there was much cooperation between UK and EU at the intermediate level below 'Higher Education'.  I imagine most EU countries would look at the shambles of a training system presided over by successive UK govts and just shake their heads.

Beyond what I've said above.. I'm pretty rusty on all this as I worked in other bits of the Guidance sector for my last few years and I retired in 2014.

Col

Hi DJ360

When leaving school t did a real hairdressing apprenticeship, 3 years as apprentice, then 2 years as an improver thus making 5 years to became qualified. After having children and returning to work, bought a salon then another salon it was when the tutor came from the collage to ask if i would take a student on day release. After speaking to the tutor about teaching she  sdvised me ro get my 730/7 adult teaching certificate, this was my dream to teach but i was never cleaver enough. While taking my 730/7 the collage offerd me a part time job teaching, It was the collage who put me though TDLB 32/33 after the college i worked as  a course cordinator for a private Hairdressing company

Hi Mary, i was born and bred on st Ann's Well rd, but at my time of life the old memory aint what it used to be. I recognized the name but couldn't place it. You have now put that little puzzle together for me, thanks.

your welcome

Good morning, Mary.

The Whitemoor was on the opposite side of Nuthall Road to the Wheatsheaf and nearer to Western Boulevard. I used to live between them when I was younger 

Yes, Mary, The Whitemoor was further along Nuthall Road on the opposite side. Last time I was in that area it had been renamed, I think it was The Snooty Fox. My parents would sometimes have a walk up there on a Sunday evening in summer. It was a nice place.