College treating 19 year cousin like a child

jumpycheese1

My 19 year old cousin has started his 2nd year of his FE college course 2 weeks ago. As part of his course, he is required to do get CLAIT, which he already has from doing it after school last year. He has asked his tutor, does he need to attend these lessons, which are once a week and on the day, there are no other lessons/lecturers. But the people on reception, keep phoning his parents' home asking them why he isn't at college. His parents tell them, he has been excused as already has the qualification. They apologised and have phoned his house every Tuesday since then.

What really annoys my cousin is that he is an adult, attending a FE college and they are treating him like a child. He has attended the other lectures since the start of college. Another reason he doesn't want to attend pointless CLAIT lessons, is not only he cannot do any other college work in the lesson, but has transport problems. Normally when he's at college, he's in from 9am-4pm and the college bus only runs to arrive at 8:45am and departs at 4:15pm. As the CLAIT lesson is an hour and a half, and lives over the county border, he cannot claim for free transport and takes him 2 buses, costing him £5.50 (2 different bus companies) and takes him 2 hours to get home. With the college bus, he is home by 5pm

My cousin is at college 3 full days a week and doesn't want to spend £5.50 a week attending a lesson which he has the qualification. He cannot claim for the hardship fund either. He much prefers to study at home, if some of you suggest - study between 10:30am and 4pm

Now the principal has given him the choice - attend the CLAIT lesson or lose his place at college. His parents are fuming and angry. Plus attending this lesson will demotivate him.

Your thoughts

xcat_girlx

he needs to be careful, some places insist you attend a certain percentage of lessons.

as for contacting his parents, thats wrong, and i suggest he takes this up with the college.

i had a B grade in GCSE maths but still had to attend a numberacy course at uni. unfortunatly, its one of those things. is there not a clait class on a more appropriate day your cousin could attend?

SomeBozo

Your thoughts

You really want mine?

In one breath the parents etc are complaining that they are not treating him like a adult, yet on the other he is not behaving like a adult (quoting transport problems, long trips home, the lesson would "demotivate" him etc).

If he wants to stay in college he needs to attend the class and get and on with it. If not he leaves.

My employer makes me me do mandatory "fire escape" procedures every month. I hate it. They don't change and we stand in the rain for 10 mins and go back to work.

But I do it, part of life is doing stuff we don't want to do. Its a life lesson and he just needs to get on with it.

Bozo

secretspender_2

i think your cousins needs to be bloody grateful he still gets his education FREE. I start college tonight, alongside my full time job and second job, in order to better myself and I have to pay for it.

Tell him to stop being so childish and he will stop getting treated like one.

Rant over. Sorry.

McKneff

i echo somebozos thoughts to the letter.

Idiophreak

jumpycheese1 wrote: »

He much prefers to study at home, if some of you suggest - study between 10:30am and 4pm

Sadly, life isn't always about doing what we prefer, it's about doing what we have to do...we're talking about 5 hours here...do a couple of hours study, have a bite to eat, go for a swim/gym/run or something, get the bus...it's not a long time to fill...

Or how about him driving to college instead?

~Beanie~

I work in a College and here every student has to do one Key Skills lesson alongside their chosen course, it is probably a similar situation where your cousin is. There are 3 Key Skills, Communication, Application of Number and ICT - if the students have over a certain grade GCSE in English and Maths then they have to do the 3rd Key Skill, ICT - which I imagine is pretty similar to CLAIT.

It is nothing to do with the College and all to do with the funding the College receives from the LSC which demands that the students do these extra Key Skills.

Zoetoes

Yes, he gets the course for free but the point is he already has the CLAIT qualification, so it's wasting his time and the lecturers time, it's taking up a place that someone else could have, and is a waste of money.

dmg24

zoeleigh wrote: »

Yes, he gets the course for free but the point is he already has the CLAIT qualification, so it's wasting his time and the lecturers time, it's taking up a place that someone else could have, and is a waste of money.

As many schools give out the CLAIT qualification without the students having to do the work, I think it is responsible of the college to insist that they attend the classes.

Zoetoes

dmg24 wrote: »

As many schools give out the CLAIT qualification without the students having to do the work, I think it is responsible of the college to insist that they attend the classes.

Why do schools give them the qualification if they haven't done the work?

dmg24

zoeleigh wrote: »

Why do schools give them the qualification if theyhaven't done the work?

Because it looks good for them - they all have targets to meet!