{"id":25391,"date":"2019-10-26T19:30:54","date_gmt":"2019-10-26T19:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=25391"},"modified":"2019-10-26T19:30:54","modified_gmt":"2019-10-26T19:30:54","slug":"university-education-key-job-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/university-education-key-job-success\/","title":{"rendered":"University education: Only key to job success?"},"content":{"rendered":"

University education is fundamental because it equips someone with crucial skills needed in career advancement. Nevertheless, it is not the only avenue one can use to secure a job opportunity because apprenticeship is an incredible option.<\/b>
\nFor instance, Ellie Farrington, who enrolled for an architecture degree before switching to mathematics at the university, but upon her graduation, she felt something was amiss.\u00a0<\/span>
\nShe, therefore, decided to fill the void by undertaking an apprenticeship.<\/span><\/p>\n

Apprenticeship is an incredible substitute for university education<\/b><\/h2>\n

Farrington attested that she did not regret taking the apprenticeship route because she is currently a qualified carpenter in Toowoomba. This position has enabled her garner the 2019 Queensland Apprentice of the Year award.\u00a0<\/b>
\nDespite this success, Farrington acknowledges that this was a pathway that was never suggested during her schooling years because university education always reigned supreme.<\/span>
\nShe proclaims:<\/span>
\n“There was definitely a stigma around it that [an apprenticeship] was an inferior career option, and it was something that was less desirable than going to uni.”<\/span>
\nFarrington also adds that many students attend university and graduate with degrees, but have no idea of how to use them because they are made to believe that this is the only option available.<\/span>
\nApprenticeship should, therefore, be given considerable emphasis as university education as this will be instrumental in the acquisition of distinctive skills.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Apprenticeship and university education fundamental in addressing the skills shortage<\/b><\/h2>\n

Both apprenticeship and university education are crucial in tackling the skills shortage. Despite this reality, apprenticeship is not given substantial emphasis.\u00a0<\/span>
\nFor instance, the number of people enrolled in traineeships and apprenticeships has fallen by 12% in the last four years, to almost over 276,000.\u00a0<\/b>
\nOn the other hand, completion rates dropped by nearly 40% during the same period. The Federal Government is, however, is making reasonable steps to address this issue, as evidenced by the <\/span>$525 million skills package<\/span><\/a> it announced. This will entail the support for an extra 80,000 new apprenticeships over the next five years.\u00a0<\/span>
\nConversely, <\/span>Damian Hinds, Education Secretary, confirmed a couple of months ago that the government wouldn\u2019t be able to keep <\/span>the promise of Apprenticeship Manifesto<\/span><\/a> \u2013 three million apprenticeships that should\u2019ve started in England by 2020.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

University education is fundamental because it equips someone with crucial skills needed in career advancement. Nevertheless, it is not the only avenue one can use to secure a job opportunity because apprenticeship is an incredible option. For instance, Ellie Farrington, who enrolled for an architecture degree before switching to mathematics at the university, but upon […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":25393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25391"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}