Training

Not all students study full-time at university or college. Many people combine their studies with work. Some companies release their staff for training one or two days a week or for two months a year. Large companies often have their own in-house training schemes.

The British Government is very enthusiastic about such training schemes. It wants at least half the work force to have a formal professional qualification by the year 2000. The Government introduced a New Deal scheme in 1998, which aims to help people who are unemployed find jobs or train for the work they want to do.

Michael Vaughan-Rees, Geraldine Sweeney, Picot Cassidy: In Britain. 21st Century Edition, Cornelsen Verlag, 2000, page 39