100 extra places at Highlands
Thursday 29th April 2010, 2:57PM BST.
Extra places are being offered at Highlands College
MORE than 100 extra places are to be created at Highlands College to help Islanders improve their chances of finding work in a recession-ravaged jobs market.
Just months after unemployment in Jersey hit record levels – with more than 1,000 people out of work – the college has been given the go-ahead to significantly boost the number of students it can accept.
The extra places are to be funded by £620,500 from the £44 million fiscal stimulus fund launched last year to help provide and safeguard jobs and improve skills and training during the recession.
It is the second consecutive year that the college has been given fiscal stimulus cash to increase its intake. David Greenwood, assistant Education director, said that many Islanders had already benefited from the extra places created at Highlands during the current academic year.
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£62500 per place?
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£6,250.00 per place?
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What would be useful is to ensure students learn a skill that is actually useful in the big wide world, rather than letting them learn a skill only to find upon leaving that there are no jobs for that.
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All this does is stave off the inevitable – which is whether this year next year or the year after these people WILL be unemployed, just another States ploy!!!
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Commendable…now what about the winter work scheme,,,we have loads that needs doin…let’s give the boys and girls jobs and dignity..I was on it years ago and believe me it was a life saver ,gave a wage instead of income support allowed me to hold my head up….and many others…will one of you politicians kick start this great scheme….we had to take the job…no excuses except medical were accepted ,and many moaned …but then became avid fans of it…so come on…Let’s do it.
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Should save the UK tax payer a few quid.
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What is the chance of A level in IT being available for mature students. Are these places available for mature students or is this just to slow the flow of school leavers into the workplace.
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Last year the school leavers were offered Jobseekers allowance, an opportunity to get a weekly pay out if you could prove you were trying to get work. Who was it that thought that this was a good idea? How many have been claiming all year but have been unable to gain a job as they showed the employer at interview that they actually werent that bothered? Why bother if you still live at home and all you need is a bit more pocket money then your parents give you? Money to do nothing. I am glad that there is more on offer at Highlands, relieved actually. The Jobseekers allowance will breed a minority of young people who have a “cba, why should I?” attitude. Stay in education for as long as you can……you are a long time working! For those who are not suited to education, Truthseeker, I agree. They need to be doing something and the scheme you promote sounds perfect.
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Flip me! My brother has been on job seekers on and off since May last year – he works 4 days a week in a charity shop just to try to make himself more employable. It is hard to get a job when you have no experience – and when he got work over the christmas period he still carried on with the charity shop work whenever he could – not all of these school leavers have a cba attitude… also in order to get the allowance you have to prove that you have applied for work and social security will monitor and check up on the jobs you will have applied for… they even call up a set number of employers to find out why you weren’t employed.
why don’t you put your energies into slagging off the teenage mothers who have never worked a day in their lives and get a free ride from the rest of us for 5 years per child!
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I apologise if i offended you Lula. If you reread my post it does say “The Jobseekers allowance will breed a minority of young people who have a “cba, why should I?” attitude”…..minority, not majority. I have a lot of contact with school leavers in my job and know who these minority are. Thank goodness for your brother and the people like him who are using it to their advantage in a positive sense. Fingers crossed that because of this he will be able to find paid work soon.
I do totally agree with your last paragraph. I had to walk away from a young lady who wanted to show me her scan photos, then went on to tell me that she was being given a flat when the baby arrived. I had just had a baby and was on maternity leave and had to raid the piggy bank to buy the next lot of nappies…..and God only knew where the rent was coming from! I know Lula, I know.
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