Whenever I like the idea of \u200b\u200ba friend on the need to raise the age for entry to university. As a school teacher, assured me that was nonsense to claim a compulsory education to 18 but at the same time it seemed a waste to sit at that age students in a lecture hall. The problem is that children grow fast, but adolescence has been extended until at least age 20 or older. So his proposal is to extend to fourteen primary and melt between 14 and 20 high school, high school and vocational training with a title (mixed) every two years. University education could take between 20 and 26, with three levels or cycles, each also with its own degree.
I know. A superior proposal. Perhaps as valid as any other, with the disadvantage of approval for Europe. But think of some advantages:
-A current major concern is the employability, job training. With this scheme and would be a first level of training aimed at working something together with some general knowledge at age 16. At 18, even more focused. At 20 would be perfectly prepared to work in almost all of the first jobs that can provide the labor market or have two years of maturity and practice to enroll in a degree.
-Teens make contact long before the skills, the skills, with "reality" and would face a race with much more discretion than to specialize both his professional future to simply grow as human beings. Nobody could get to the University without knowing a trade and no one should leave it without the maturity that you understand the essential concepts and profound of his profession or society.
Surely the idea I like for my own personal career and my current job as professor of communication. In my case, if I could design my own studies, I would have followed a mixed school with a FP that had to do with communication in general. Not that hard: enough to take the current Bachelor of Arts (that almost nobody has), perhaps with a pinch of technology, and a cycle through picture or graphic arts. Next, an upper-Image, Communication, Manufacturing or Production. With 20 years I would to study Journalism, Advertising or Communication Studies. And every two years would reach a new academic level: graduate, master's and doctoral degrees. At 26, begin to do the thesis if my career was directed towards the University.
The new FP, which is published in the Official Gazette of the 12th of March, includes the recognition of university credits and access to new levels. Leave a wide margin at the universities: between 30 and 120 credits (in fact, between 60 and 120). Not bad. The bad thing is that PF will lose graduate credit for the source materials, introductory theories, etc and they will meet again with more practical content, which they are supposed to dominate more. In short, the system must be improved. But do not go astray.
However, we can fall into the usual pendulum English: higher vocational education is the same as the first two years of college? Well certainly not, nor is it now penalize those who have chosen high school. In fact, the great sin is division between vocational and high school as well try to convert the University into a Technical College. Make
systems of first and second division is stupid. Life takes care to place each one in its place.
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