Re Training Nurse/Teacher?

kelloggs36

Tink82 wrote: »

We where told that they actually expire after so many years. You need up to date qualifications. Think it's more about bums on seats and funding though

Qualifications like O levels and GCSEs don't run out or expire! In order to go to university you have to have either A levels or an Access qualification, you can't go to university with just GCSEs at any time!

RobertoMoir

Tink82 wrote: »

We where told that they actually expire after so many years.

Ring up the exam board and check. It'll be nice for them to hear a joke where they are not the punchline.

Tink82 wrote: »

You need up to date qualifications.

This I can get behind. One benefit of doing a "gateway" course of some kind is that you'll find you are out of practice at good studying habits and skills and will need to get those skills working again before starting a heavyweight course.

Tink82 wrote: »

Think it's more about bums on seats and funding though

Yes. This.

Oldernotwiser

Tink82 wrote: »

We where told that they actually expire after so many years. You need up to date qualifications. Think it's more about bums on seats and funding though

You're absolutely right, you've been lied to for the purposes of keeping up class numbers!

Tink82

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

You're absolutely right, you've been lied to for the purposes of keeping up class numbers!

I actually went with the intention of going into midwifery but the head talked me out of it and into teaching..

Tink82

RobertoMoir wrote: »

Ring up the exam board and check. It'll be nice for them to hear a joke where they are not the punchline.



This I can get behind. One benefit of doing a "gateway" course of some kind is that you'll find you are out of practice at good studying habits and skills and will need to get those skills working again before starting a heavyweight course.



Yes. This.

I do think A levels or GSCE's should be brushed up on after a certain period of time if intending to go onto uni. There are a lot of adults on my course now that struggle and have decent grades

Tink82

kelloggs36 wrote: »

Qualifications like O levels and GCSEs don't run out or expire! In order to go to university you have to have either A levels or an Access qualification, you can't go to university with just GCSEs at any time!

Yes I know that, hence why I'm there now. I was told they expire, though I think it is because they need a certain number on the course to get funding

bristol_pilot

Sorry but if those results are indicative of the OP's academic ability - rather than of some personal catastrophe that occurred in the OP's GCSE year - then I don't think the OP should even consider going into teaching or nursing. The kids and patients deserve better. The OP would be better off doing some kind of 'return to work' course then looking for office admin work.

EverTheOptimist

bristol_pilot wrote: »

Sorry but if those results are indicative of the OP's academic ability - rather than of some personal catasrophe that occurred in the OP's GCSE year - then I don't think the OP should even consider going into teaching or nursing. The kids and patients deserve better. The OP would be better off doing some kind of 'return to work' course then looking for office admin work.

To be fair, academic ability does not reflect someone's ability to care for/ nurse others, i work with some great nurses that didn't necessarily excel in school but this doesn't affect their ability to care for and support the challenging patients we work with.

kelloggs36

My sister got awful GCSE grades but has passed her nursing qualification getting high 60s and some low 70s for her university essays. GCSEs aren't always a true indication of somebody's abiliyt. My O levels were okay - 1 grade A, 5 grade Bs and 2 grade Cs in 1987. I did no study for 17 years and got virtually straight As for my Access course and then went on to get a First Class degree in Primary Education. I'm sure if I had worked harder at school I could have got straight As but I had other distractions to deal with - like every other teenager! My school work was not as much of a priority as it could have been. Maybe this was the issue for the OP.

bristol_pilot

Nurses don't just change the sheets these days - they calculate doses of potentially lethal medicines, keep important records and so forth. We are talking about someone with effectively no qualifications here.

My own profession involves safety-critical work and we wouldn't even consider someone who doesn't have a string of A's, a first class hons from a proper university and probably a masters. Why shouldn't parents, kids, patients - the customers - expect to be treated by someone with some sort of proven basic ability?