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An Independent Wales but stay in the EU??? on 16:22 - Apr 2 by Highjack
The reputation of our nation is so terrible that millions of people from around the world are risking life and limb to try and get here.
Come on HJ, Politically speaking. You can’t deny this whole episode is a mess and you can’t say that our standing is in a good place right now? It simply isn’t.
Our government is not fit for purpose. And MPs entrenched, especially the tories. Our country divided. There’s no strong and stable government! There’s no certainty. We’re haemorrhaging good will.
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An Independent Wales but stay in the EU??? on 20:48 - Apr 2 with 734 views
An Independent Wales but stay in the EU??? on 09:31 - Apr 2 by costalotta
Young people are uneducated. Hmmm. Some are. I’m a parent and I can relate in some ways to that. However, there’s a tinge of nostalgia and ignorance that comes with that. It’s just a different time old timer. They're educated in different ways and as I employ and work with mainly educated and younger people I do have disagree with what you say. In my experience, they bring new ideas, new thinking.
Young people have no ambition? Errrr. Ok.
War... did our soldiers run away in Iraq or Afghanistan? They weren’t 40/40/60/70 year olds were they. Your a complete and utter disgrace if that’s what you think.
You have to be happy with it, like I’d imagine most are...as it’s their reference point.
Kids have always been the same but again some are ignorant, but then, I’d blame the parents.
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“They are educated in a different way”
When they can’t do simple maths
So much for this modern way of teaching
I used to and still do some work for a Japanese Company
One of the idiosyncrasy of working for them. Was that managers were asked to get involved in the interviewing of possible new employees
The people looking for employment were given a form to fill in and then asked to hand it in for us to look at
Remembering that all of the people interviewed had been given at least 13 years free education. I really felt sorry for them that they had wasted the most important part of their life in wasting in what they were given
If that is the result of this modern way of educating people, it’s no wonder that Wales are bottom of the U.K. table in education
I have a grandson whose 9 and I have worked with him in the way I was taught in arithmetic and my wife works with him on his spelling and grammar like she was taught in the local Grammar School. His mother works with him as well
Is it just a coincidence that he is way ahead of other pupils in his class. just by being taught as we were taught all those years ago
How many of children of his age knows the tables
It’s not only children that don’t know them, but a hell of a lot of adults don’t know as well
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An Independent Wales but stay in the EU??? on 08:30 - Apr 3 with 664 views
An Independent Wales but stay in the EU??? on 20:48 - Apr 2 by valleyboy
“They are educated in a different way”
When they can’t do simple maths
So much for this modern way of teaching
I used to and still do some work for a Japanese Company
One of the idiosyncrasy of working for them. Was that managers were asked to get involved in the interviewing of possible new employees
The people looking for employment were given a form to fill in and then asked to hand it in for us to look at
Remembering that all of the people interviewed had been given at least 13 years free education. I really felt sorry for them that they had wasted the most important part of their life in wasting in what they were given
If that is the result of this modern way of educating people, it’s no wonder that Wales are bottom of the U.K. table in education
I have a grandson whose 9 and I have worked with him in the way I was taught in arithmetic and my wife works with him on his spelling and grammar like she was taught in the local Grammar School. His mother works with him as well
Is it just a coincidence that he is way ahead of other pupils in his class. just by being taught as we were taught all those years ago
How many of children of his age knows the tables
It’s not only children that don’t know them, but a hell of a lot of adults don’t know as well
You make some good interesting points but i would say that there have always been kids who can't do simple maths and grown ups who don't know their tables. And then, there are those who don't need tables, but its a method thats important.
What i mean is, the audience has always been the same. I will agree with you on one thing though, the education system in Wales has been in decline and that is firmly at the feet of the WAG. Some kids are clever, some not so clever and have to work harder. Bigger classrooms doesn't help this. Spending time on not so important subjects doesn't help this either. Going to annoy a few now, but i think in wales we should spend more time on Maths, Technologies & Sciences and English and less time on Welsh language etc.
As for the comment about helping your grand kids, i admire that. But there are many that don't along who parents that don't.
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An Independent Wales but stay in the EU??? on 11:13 - Apr 3 with 618 views
An Independent Wales but stay in the EU??? on 08:30 - Apr 3 by costalotta
You make some good interesting points but i would say that there have always been kids who can't do simple maths and grown ups who don't know their tables. And then, there are those who don't need tables, but its a method thats important.
What i mean is, the audience has always been the same. I will agree with you on one thing though, the education system in Wales has been in decline and that is firmly at the feet of the WAG. Some kids are clever, some not so clever and have to work harder. Bigger classrooms doesn't help this. Spending time on not so important subjects doesn't help this either. Going to annoy a few now, but i think in wales we should spend more time on Maths, Technologies & Sciences and English and less time on Welsh language etc.
As for the comment about helping your grand kids, i admire that. But there are many that don't along who parents that don't.
I would tell any kid in school today to concentrate on 3 or 4 subjects and forget the rest
I’ll leave you to guess which ones
In the not too distant future. There will be little work for anyone that hasn’t a decent education, especially with AI entering the arena
If you see what’s happening in China. With so many of their youngsters going in for science, engineering degrees or of that nature. It will frighten the pants off people here trying to run a buisness. It’s slready freighting my Japanese colleges in what they see going on over there
Even now there’s a hell of a shortage of engineers in the U.K. And when talking to a father, whose son has joined the Navy as a commission officer. He was telling me that the Navy pays an Engineering Commisioned Officer £27k more than someone of a similar ranking
And yet we still have industries dictated to by unions
For example. Let’s say if a motor goes down on a machine. An electrician goes there to disconnect the electrics, calls for the mechanical person to disconnect it mechanically and then even calls for someone to take it back to the workshop
And that’s what’s happening even now at Fords in Bridgend
That company will be gone within a year if not sooner, and that will be nothing to do with Brexit, but Brexit will get the blame
When i had my house built the Groundworkers prepared the ground. they called the brick layers to build the footings, plinth and shell. They then called the chippies to put the roof truces on. They then called the roofers to finish the roof. Roofers called the sparkies and plumbers for first fix and on it goes.
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An Independent Wales but stay in the EU??? on 14:37 - Apr 3 with 590 views
An Independent Wales but stay in the EU??? on 13:51 - Apr 3 by costalotta
When i had my house built the Groundworkers prepared the ground. they called the brick layers to build the footings, plinth and shell. They then called the chippies to put the roof truces on. They then called the roofers to finish the roof. Roofers called the sparkies and plumbers for first fix and on it goes.
When I built my house
I didn’t have to call any of them
I did the work myself
The point I was making. That these days if you want to compete with the likes of the US, Germany, Japan and certainly these days China
Maintence engineers must be multiple discipline and 1 Man should have been able to do that job himself
If I Remember rightly
Did you not say you were in buisness and working with educated skilled people
When is the buisness going to close if you follow something in the line of what you have just said
I can name many businesses that have shut following those lines
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An Independent Wales but stay in the EU??? on 14:58 - Apr 3 with 588 views
An Independent Wales but stay in the EU??? on 14:37 - Apr 3 by valleyboy
When I built my house
I didn’t have to call any of them
I did the work myself
The point I was making. That these days if you want to compete with the likes of the US, Germany, Japan and certainly these days China
Maintence engineers must be multiple discipline and 1 Man should have been able to do that job himself
If I Remember rightly
Did you not say you were in buisness and working with educated skilled people
When is the buisness going to close if you follow something in the line of what you have just said
I can name many businesses that have shut following those lines
Congratulations. Thats admirable...to build ones own house!
Yes i do and they're multi skilled as you do suggest. But i wouldn't use a c developer (who can also develop in C++ and other OO langs) to run a SE pen test. They are both IT professionals. Certified but a different disciplines.
It obviously helps to have more skills but i'd rather experts than those who spread themselves too thin and are a master of none.
Would you use Leigh Halfpenny in as Centre half for Cardiff tonight playing Man City? They are both sports professionals.
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An Independent Wales but stay in the EU??? on 16:33 - Apr 3 with 569 views
An Independent Wales but stay in the EU??? on 14:58 - Apr 3 by costalotta
Congratulations. Thats admirable...to build ones own house!
Yes i do and they're multi skilled as you do suggest. But i wouldn't use a c developer (who can also develop in C++ and other OO langs) to run a SE pen test. They are both IT professionals. Certified but a different disciplines.
It obviously helps to have more skills but i'd rather experts than those who spread themselves too thin and are a master of none.
Would you use Leigh Halfpenny in as Centre half for Cardiff tonight playing Man City? They are both sports professionals.
Now you are using arguments that are not fit for purpose
Nobody in their right mind would use a maintenance person as a multi discipline engineer if he was not properly trained
In industry these days you could be asking them to work on 410 volts 3 phase and 3000 atmospheres in hydraulics
These primary drivers could kill you and possibly people around you if you didn’t know what you were doing
Funny you should be talking about IT people. As I used to know someone that worked for some big bank up there in the smoke. That used to post regularly on the SCF2 site and possibly on here as well. That brought the whole banking system down a few years ago when he intoduced some new software on their system
Said that he should have trialed it first before putting it live
Not working as a software developer any more. But went and studied Law, although he had a first cllas honours degree in Electrical Engineering ftprom a top university
Always kept telling him he should have stayed in Engineering
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An Independent Wales but stay in the EU??? on 16:35 - Apr 3 with 568 views
An Independent Wales but stay in the EU??? on 14:58 - Apr 3 by costalotta
Congratulations. Thats admirable...to build ones own house!
Yes i do and they're multi skilled as you do suggest. But i wouldn't use a c developer (who can also develop in C++ and other OO langs) to run a SE pen test. They are both IT professionals. Certified but a different disciplines.
It obviously helps to have more skills but i'd rather experts than those who spread themselves too thin and are a master of none.
Would you use Leigh Halfpenny in as Centre half for Cardiff tonight playing Man City? They are both sports professionals.
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