... you can get on a health care degree apprenticeship with a couple of GCSEs, a 3 month local tech P/T level 3 'Introduction to Health Care' course (essays, no exam); and an additional 'Step Up' 8 hours of 'prep' coursework? Thence onto a degree course with all but no academic time (20% of the total time); 1 exam (end of Y1) and all the rest being 'assessments' and 'essays'- run by the uni who want the cash and have no skin in the game - or accountability- once you 'qualify'?
Why did I bother with three A levels, including a science? And then paying for my degree?
Am I a mug -or is the British Public in the dark about the tumbling standards needed to be a HCP?
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Miljea · 11/04/2021 19:44
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