+ Bookmark This Page    
Preferences  |  8:02 PM
  1. Home
  2. Latest News
  3. Submit Press Releases
  4. Search Jobs
  5. Search Businesses
  1. News Home
  2. News Archive
  3. By Category
  4. By Location
  5. By Date
  6. By Tag
  7. Newsletter
  8. 40,000 RSS Feeds
  9. Submit Free Press Release
 
Filter News
Category

Country

State / Province
Select Country First

City / Town
Select State First

British students taking career choices too soon, says SkillsTrain.

SkillsTrain believe that students are taking career life choices too soon and should think very carefully about career paths before making final decisions.
 

 
SkillsTrain Logo

SkillsTrain Logo

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

PRLog (Press Release)Aug 19, 2008 – As British students await their GCSE’s, AS and A level results, top vocational home study college, SkillsTrain, says students are taking their life time career decisions at the worst possible time of their lives.

The college claims that students are often under pressure, at a time when a career still seems a far off reality, when they’re frequently too young and have little or no experience of life beyond education.

SkillsTrain College principal, Myra Smallman, said, “At 16 and 18 years old students are greatly influenced by their peers, their friends, their teachers and perhaps worse still, by their parents. As this year’s students receive their exam results they need to think very carefully about their chosen career paths.

Admittedly most of us no longer find a `career for life’, but committing to a career too young leads many needing to re-think university and college choices within just a few years, either dropping out or changing courses.”

SkillsTrain enrols home study students of all ages from 16 to 80, many of whom have entered the jobs market with the `wrong’ training or University skills. Once they are in the workplace they find they need to re-train in specific vocational skills, such as book-keeping, or Microsoft Office or one of the many technical and computing disciplines.

Myra Smallman continued, “Parents are often to blame, because the only experience they have is their own career paths and their own aspirations. But encouraging an IT enthusiast who spends every waking hour on the internet to study law or geography, isn’t going to work, whereas he’d probably thrive in a computing environment or as a web designer.

We have many students studying for our home study courses while continuing with jobs that they weren’t happy in, but at least on a SkillsTrain course they can make that choice by studying around their work commitments, rather than becoming perpetual college students.”

The company says that Internet security and web design are two of the most popular vocational courses, with book-keeping and Microsoft office skills also attracting a large number of career change students, as well as those simply wanting to demonstrate their ability to achieve a qualification.

For further information about SkillsTrain courses call 0800 052 3965 or visit www.skillstrainuk.com

End.

Press contact: Mary Stuart-Miller, 01403 738844

# # #

About SkillsTrain: SkillsTrain is the acknowledged leader in providing affordable, high quality IT training - we are the UK's largest specialist home study and distance learning provider of IT courses.

# # # + Share This Article Click to see PDF Version of this Press Release

Email to a Friend     Visit Press Room       Previous News   Next News


Issued By:SkillsTrain
Contact Email:Click to email
Phone:01582543618
Address:Hamilton House, 80-88 Collingdon Street
City/Town:Luton
State/Province:Bedfordshire
Zip:LU1 1RX
Country:United Kingdom
Categories:Consumer, Computers, Education
Tags:Consumer, Education, Skillstrain, Computer, Course, Skills, Train, Training, Home, Learning, Distance, It, Study
Shortcut:www.prlog.org/10107092

Disclaimer:   Issuers of the press releases are solely responsible for the content of their press releases. PRLog.Org can't be held liable for the contents of the press releases.   Report Abuse


Related

(Teen) Queen’s visit to Luton

Everyone can be a web designer, say IT trainers SkillsTrain

Home study firm SkillsTrain is top of the class

Get Britain training, SkillsTrain backs PM’s initiatives

Top Ten Reasons For Students Opting For Home Study


Most Viewed (Last 7 days)

About UHF RFID reader, what is the lowest price? - 914 views

Competitive Intelligence: Frightening Information Your Competitors Can Learn About Your Business - 744 views

Yellowfin Business Intelligence recognised among 25 rising companies that CIO’s must know about. - 719 views

New Book About Female Entrepreneurs Features Local Talent - 676 views

iPod Nano 4G 8GB Introduced! - 535 views



Previous News

Next News

Are you a Journalist?


For Businesses ...


Tutorial on Free Marketing




  1. SiteMap
  2. Contact PRLog
  3. Privacy Policy
  4. Terms of Use
  5. Copyright Notice