Thanks for that information, Rob.
I shall leave it to others to wade through
this lot.
But
here are a
couple of the .pdf's (the content of which look pretty much OK to me).
Myself, I suspect that my overall impression remains correct:- that it is all very well that VRCT
et al is (or shall be) insisting on "raising the bar", but where are the opportunities for youngsters (or anyone else) to
meet those requirements?
I can't imagine there are too many young folk about who are
so convinced that they want to become biomeds that they will be willing to make commitments at the level mentioned. Surely young people (even if they knew what a "biomed" was at all) would be better advised to hedge their bets and think in terms (initially at least) of "electronics technician", or similar.
It seems to me that, once again, the young folk of Britain have been sold a pup (in being expected to make up their minds so early, with potentially disastrous financial consequences). At least "in my day" a bloke could pick up a decent technical training (yes, at the taxpayers' expense) in HM Forces.
It all really comes back to the same old question:- where is the so-called* NHS going to find the next wave of technicians, once the rapidly declining stock of Old Sweats have moved on?
I realised many years ago that this country is run by
jackasses, so I don't expect any logical response from the so-called "government" to our general need for (indigenous) technical manpower, so I won't be holding my breath on that one.
But it seems to me that for some time (years) now the lawyers who are "in charge" of our country have defaulted to the view that standards (and I mean standards in general there) can be improved solely by the threat of litigation. To which I reply:- [censored]!
*
If it was a proper National Health Service, it would operate its own central training organisation, geared to National requirements.
