To give just a tiny flavour, courses currently on offer include animal nursing, computer-aided design, dental technology, floristry and quantity surveying.
Certainly it is a viable approach to prepare people for actual careers -- as nurses, computer programmers, technicians of various kinds, etc. -- but this should not be done at the expense of traditional learning.
Thousands of people were scheduled to sit a nationwide entry test next month for about 3,000 job offers in the state sector, including roles for teachers, nurses, computer programmers and prison guards.
But as newly hired teachers, nurses, computer technicians, engineers and other government professionals find that their salaries do not match their increasing skills, they will surely leave for other, more remunerative opportunities.
Larry Tunzi, 49, a cattle rancher and volunteer fire chief in Comptche, a nook where everyone knows your name, stood on a ridge-top recently and counted 30 fires to be fought by his crew, which included a carpenter, a butcher, a nurse, computer programmers and Wally Stubbs, a 70-year-old retired chief operating officer of a manufacturing company.
Second, nurses' computer skills were surveyed.
This information was integrated and used for the development process of an education curriculum designed to support nurses' computer and Internet skills.
According to Stronge and Brodt (1985), nurses' computer attitudes reflected their complex internal states that affect their choice or behaviour towards computer use.
A study conducted in India (15) showed that nurses' computer attitudes were influenced by age and sex and not by the amount of computer usage.
