With a team in the US responsible for lesson planning, and its teachers, mostly school-leavers trained up by Bridge, evaluated on a daily, even hourly, basis, its aim is to get children not just into school, but to get them learning as well, while making a profit in the process.
For older recruits, global employers such as PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Nestlé and Ernst & Young (EY) are still prominent on the UK university milk round but they now offer more school leaver training schemes for sixth formers.
The interviewers were secondary school leavers who were trained for 5 days on data collection techniques.
Training Coached school-leavers in web design / development skills.
According to Lorol, while some trainees are college leavers, many train drivers apply for the job having already followed a career in a different line of work, so Puffett's career change is not unusual.
Students there study a very wide range of academic and vocational courses, and range from school leavers and sixth formers to people training to make career moves.
To plug gaps, the company has started training former military personnel along with school-leavers.
Critics say it will be little more than a rerun of the 1980s youth training scheme which enabled employers to exploit school leavers as cheap labour with little in the way of training.
The strategy states that government will work with the industry to tackle a looming skills shortage, partly by re-training military leavers to fill some of the 15,000 new jobs expected to be created in the oil and gas sector over the next five years.
The Leavers — Rusty, 55; his wife, Diane, 53; and their children Retta, 20, and Gardner, 17 — have been buying and selling cattle, training horses and dogs to "cut" the herd, and running Wild West-style demonstrations for schoolchildren and tourists since Mr. Leaver and two partners bought the ranch in 1971, from Ms. Leaver's father, Frank Dickinson.
