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Wednesday, July 11, 1973
NEW EVENING COURSE IN BRICKLAYING, PLASTERING AND TILING
The three-year part-time evening course in bricklaying, plastering
and tiling will be run on a "module" basis at the Morrison Hill Technical
Institute when classes commence next September.
"The new system," a spokesman for the Institute said, "is designed to
make the course more attractive to potential apprentices by removing the
rigidity of the old system, in which a student is required to complete an
entire three-year course before a certificate can be awarded.
"Instead of learning at the same time all related skills required
of a full craftsman trainees will, in future, be taught one skill at a time."
With the change in the training system, there has been a significant
improvement in the number of applicants seeking admission to the new classes.
The spokesman pointed out that 107 applicants took the oral test
last month.
Compared with the number last year, it represented an increase
of 400 per cent.
"The decision to change the training system has been taken in the
light of last year's unsatisfactory enrolment, It also follows consultation
with the Building Trades Industrial Committee of the Industrial Training Advisory
Committee and the City and Guilds of London Institute which gives recognition
to the course, "he said.
The flexible system of module training could still meet the needs
both of the industry and the individual while allowing a new entrant freedom to
choose the programme that suited him best.
On completion