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Helen Murphy

This is fantasic news for Education and Highlands College. Perhaps the Government should consider funding for 200 rather than 100. Good luck Highlands.

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Jaime

And they still think its a good idea to increase the population of the island!! Not that i think its a bad idea for people to go to college or retrain but the fact that there are so many people struggling to find work!! I think things need to be seriously reconsidered and the influx of people paused to only those who will benefit the island!! We need the youth to give our youth a chance instead of giving their future away!!!

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david brown

nothing new here then, some of the courses here are as much use as a chocolate fireguard .
it has been a dumping ground for the young unemployed long before now.
but at least young people attending can get some kind of allowance, to help their parents make ends meet.
and still we are importing labour.

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phil perchard

Population growth policies will only serve to make the situation worse for our school leavers – no jobs for young locals – what a start to their working lives.

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Tim

If GST was brought in to claw back funds to fill a black hole, or several then its reasonable to assume that money is tight for training courses and getting people working again or perhaps for the first time.

However, the finance industry is still making money and looking for candidates when other industries (not that we have many others) are cutting back.

What would be wrong with getting the finance industry to put its collective hands in their pockets to fund training for local people to take up local jobs and break the cycle of dependancy on income support or low paid jobs with no prospects?

To do otherwise could be seen as a cynical slap in the face to the community that helps these institutions make millions and surely that wouldn’t happen.

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Nellie Macon

9Tim – It would be more helpful if the Finance industry were to be forced to look at employing local people first rather than going through the motions of interviewing them only to employ the J cats that they always had in line for the job anyway. There are many jobs in Finance where local, suitably qualified people have applied for the positions and immigrants have been brought in with their partners and families then adding to the population.

The excuse has always been that the Regulations and Undertakings Law provides sufficient protection for local people and they will never admit that it’s proved useless – both in protecting the local workforce or as a means of population control.

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Adrian

PJG what do you mean by hard work? I have no problem with hard work but it appears often the harder someone works the less they get paid. Not a good advert for working hard is it?

Do all the rich, for example, living on their investments do a hard day’s graft everday or not?

This is the problem today no one really wants to do much work, but they want paying as much money as possible. Most are happy to outsource their work to others and take the credit for it. This is the way of things today. Not very good is it? Management from what I have seen are very good at this.

However they expect others to work hard, often for the minimum wage, or just above, and they look down on these workers, as they think these people are below them. It is often a case of do it or you’re sacked, not much compassion or understanding for their situation. As long as the work is done thats the bottom line, nothing else matters now as far as I am concerned.

Job satisfaction, compassion and time to think are now things of the past as people are stressed day in day out for what? Just to keep their job, is this living? Sorry but it isn’t, it is existing in a twilight world of work, work and more work, with no job protection, and probably no pension either, so much for progress.

How often do we hear the tired old phrase your lucky to have a job!

I myself don’t see how it is lucky that anyone is forced to work. I would say someone who has the option whether to work or not is lucky.

What is the point in training someone to degree level to give them a cleaning job, whilst someone comes into the island with less qualies and gets a higher paid job, just because they may have some experience?

As per finance it isn’t a highly skilled job so most are able to do it with a little training. The hardest thing about it is concentrating as it can be monotonous. No hard graft and sweeting of ones brow here for minimum wage, unlike the workers in the fields picking the crops in all weathers.

Tim a good point, maybe those making the most from Jersey should think about giving a bit more back, even if it upsets their shareholders? It takes everyone to run an economy successfully so all should benefit and not just a select few. The trickle down theory is flawed, it never works, it is made up to appease the workers by those running the show as far as I am concerned.

It is about time someone decided on a better system to replace this greedy capitalistic flawed system as it isn’t all its cracked up to be. I would advocate a system more along the co-operative system where the goods are shared out more evenly on the what is required principle and not like now where it is a case of grab as much as you can for yourself and wo betide anyone who gets in your way.

As far as I am concerned we have our principles all wrong and this is why everything is in a mess now. It is unfair on the majority of people and all plants and animals on this planet.

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Darren Le Geyt

Adrian,

careful, you are now espousing Marxist philosophies, the Police will conduct an illegal (sorry legalish) raid at any moment…

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Lieve

Just surf for jobs in Jersey on the internet and you will find quite a lot of UK agencies advertising jobs in Jersey that are not even advertised here in Jersey – States jobs included!

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Adrian

Shush! I’ve just lent my licence to someone else!

I think it is a case of always expecting the worst and being prepared when interpretations are flexible!

Others may say I am left wing, however I view myself as just espousing common sense, which would work if everyone followed a decent set of principles. It is therefore important to do one’s bit and try to change peoples’ perspective on right and wrong and what is and isn’t acceptable in modern society.

If no one bothers we will face the end sooner rather than later. If anyone doubts this just work out how long at this rate of exploitation and growth before the world falls short of food and clean drinking water.

By this I am not claiming to be better than anyone else but am just pointing out the inevitability of things. Other may of cause burying their heads in the sands and pretend all is well with the planet. However when collapse comes those least prepared will, as in the times of Noah do what the rest did.

Lievre valid point, why only advertise for applicants in the UK? An enquiry should be held into this. However I must say it doesn’t surprise me one little bit, as the States have appeared to favour UK applicants for top jobs for as long as I can remember.

I myself think it is time to stop this, by training locals up, so that, except in the very few cases where it is impossible to find a competent resident, all jobs go internally.

This would have the desired effect to severely curtail inward migration and thus protecting the local environment and population from having their quality of life reduced still further.

I myself wouldn’t want to affect others standard of living by migrating into their country and doing that to them, without their permission or compensating them for my effects on them. If people can have zero effect on the quality of life of others, or improve it, then fair enough.

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