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The Youth Training Scheme (YTS) was the name in the United Kingdom of an on-the-job training course for school leavers aged 16 and 17 and was managed by the Manpower Services Commission. The scheme was first outlined in the 1980 white paper A New Training Initiative: A Programme for Action , and it was brought into operation in 1983 to replace ...
Wiltshire College’s Trowbridge campus, in College Road, offers a range of vocational courses for school-leavers. It houses the Arc Theatre, a venue for live performances, as well as hair and beauty salons, science labs, motor vehicle workshops, art studios, Mac suites, a production studio and The White Horse Restaurant, a student-run restaurant.
The City and Guilds of London Institute the forerunner of Imperial College engineering school has been offering vocational education through apprenticeships since the 1870s from basic craft skills (mechanic, hairdresser, chef, plumbing, carpentry, bricklaying, etc.) all the way up to qualifications equivalent to university master's degrees and ...
From 1900, the Board of Education wanted all children to remain at school until the age 14 but continued to allow most children to leave school at 13 or sometimes 12-years-old through local by-laws. Many working-class parents did not see education beyond basic literacy and numeracy as relevant to their children's economic futures. A focus of ...
The total cost in the early 1950s of the service per year was around £1.7m. In a study from 1950-3, it was found that around 1.48m school-leavers had been given advice, and from that 1.357m had directly found employment. A Training Allowance Scheme had been introduced in 1947 for Youths when Training away from Home.
The College offers a wide range of academic and vocational full and part-time courses to school leavers and adult learners. Part-time courses are delivered at venues across West Berkshire. Courses include GCSEs , NVQs , BTECs and apprenticeships .
In 1964 the college took over the buildings of Dudden Hill Lane school. The art school closed in 1959, and in 1969 the school of building amalgamated with other schools to form Swaminarayan School Sladebrook High School. There were 8,000 enrolments in 1978. [5] In 1991, the sites again merged, to become the College of North West London (CNWL). [7]
2.1 Full-time study. Subjects available for full-time study at City of Oxford College include art and design, brickwork, business and enterprise, caring and health, catering and hospitality, construction, electrical, engineering, foundation studies, furniture, hair and beauty, joinery, media, motor vehicles, music, painting and decorating, performing arts, plumbing, sport, travel and tourism ...