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Lateral-entry into education is struggling

by Paul de Blot 15 August 2009 Permalink

Lateral-entry into education is struggling as we can read in the newspaper. How can that be? Their training is not because they often have very good knowledge. I think that lateral-entry into the healthcare sector, where a major need for forces, will experience the same problem. Yet it is a good thing if both care and education with lateral-entry can be strengthened. But there is more than a technical hands-on training level.


Where do we go with our teaching?

Politics does everything to quickly get out of crisis. That is very laudable but the practice gives the impression of panic football. The focus is mainly on the recovery of the economy, because we can not with our children indebted subject. That seems a good argument. It is very true the next generations do not have chunks of our crisis leave. But unilateral economic recovery is mainly a restoration of the established order, but at the expense of future generations.