Liz

You do realise that the opposite of semi professional is semi amateur?

I think you will find that they still are. The problem with doing anything in IT at university is that what you have studied will be out of date before you have finished the course. It is better to work in it and learn on the job so therefore an apprenticeship.

That is the opposite of forward planning.😂

What always worried me were the immigrants doing jobs that people in the UK thought were beneath them. Why are they not doing that where they came from and who is doing it there? Health workers being a prime example.

It isn't just teenagers. Anyone in a dead end job could train if we had the colleges for them to train in.

Just close the universities. We have too many. Open colleges for anyone of any age to learn trades. The money would attract 20 and 30 year olds who have silly university degrees that have only awarded them debt. Get schools to promote trades over film studies degrees.

Why can't we train our own? Some of the universities offering silly degrees are running out of money. Many of them used to be technical colleges where people learned the trades. Convert them back to technical colleges and offer free training in trades.

Brick layers are extremely well paid compared to someone trying to get a job with a something studies type degree. If you want to afford to buy your own home a trade is much better than a degree in nothing.

This is caused by too many universities and schools telling their students to go to university. We then have unemployed people with degrees that no one wants rather than those same people attending colleges teaching trades and leaving and getting a well paid job.

I tend to think that a 12 by 12 room inside is heaps better than a shop doorway outside. There is sheltered housing that is no bigger than this and that has a small kitchen and bathroom in it.

The irony is that South Africa is thinking of introducing a health system like the NHS. Meanwhile politicians in the UK seem to be in the process of destroying the NHS.

Including those that think they are supporting it. They haven't thought through how much the insurance premiums are for older people. When they are working it all looks fine but wait until they retire.....

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We do not want an American-style healthcare system in the UK. It would be catastrophic for millions of patients 🚨

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I am doomed, doomed. Probably not gluten free......

Bigger population, fewer GPs. How does that work?

Asylum seekers yes. People who are moving because they think that the UK offers a better qualify of life , no. The reason being that what might benefit us also doesn't benefit the countries that they come from.

Only people who are not autistic could write something like this. Autistic people are discriminated against because we are different to the majority. That majority think that they are normal.

One of the problems is that we don't have enough people with building trades. There is a particular shortage of bricklayers. The institutions that used to train trades people have mostly changed their names to universities. We need more apprenticeships in the trades.

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Revealed: bias found in AI system used to detect UK benefits fraud Exclusive: Age, disability, marital status and nationality influence decisions to investigate claims, prompting fears of ‘hurt first, fix later’ approach

I am completely unsurprised.

Revealed: bias found in AI system used to detect UK benefits fraud
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1 GP per 2300 patients in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 an ⬆️ of 500 patients in 10yrs

The failure to invest in GPs, with a cut in funding of 20%

Led to unemployment & under employment of GPs, practices closing & GPs leaving

The new Govt said it would bring 1000 GPs via ARRS JUST 75 have been employed

FUND #GeneralPractice

Well, I’ll never be asked to sing Christmas songs at the psych ward again

Apparently, “do you hear what I hear”, was the wrong choice?

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OK back to the Uke. You have to keep doing it.

Then if you go on doing it everyday the return to the disordered thoughts after the music gets later. So instead of them coming back straight away they still come back but the gap between the stopping playing and them coming back gets longer.

Do you play the guitar? I can tell you about the music distraction thing. If you play music to distract from disordered thoughts in mental illness eventually the times when you are not having disordered thoughts lengthen. So a couple of hours a day on music playing will result in some distraction

Today, surprised to still find a few who believe neurodivergent people should hide at work, to stop prejudiced clients from withdrawing their custom.
I wonder which other minorities they ask to hide?
It's 1 in every 7 employees and managers. How do they hide them all, eh? 😂👀

➡️ Are these outcomes truly a reflection of outstanding student performance, or do they indicate a lack of sufficient academic challenge for a Master's degree?

FOI data raises concerns about assessment rigour:

- High pass rates and distinctions across modules, with minimal failures.

- "Module K," introduced in 2022/23, saw a 100% distinction rate among all 60 students.

The course team is considering reducing contact time to 4 days per week, citing student fatigue (Revalidation Report, p3).

❗️While student wellbeing is important, the PA curriculum is already dangerously short for generalist diagnostic roles.