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Sunday, January 16, 2011
Daft Jobs
No need to worry about financial cutbacks if you are in the market for a daft job. Just get yourself over to Pimlico Academy where they are looking for a Raising Aspirations Coordinator
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Unusual job title yes, but not daft job. As a teacher (ex-teacher?) you are probably well aware that low aspirations can have a massively detrimental effect on students.
Er, why can't the subject specialists or the careers (sorry, work-related learning) do this stuff?
Answer: they can/do/should. And if they don't it's because they have to spend too much time on planning/reports/risk assessments/beat their heads against brick walls.
Aspirations for what? going to university so you can get a job in a call centre?
Let's face it, the only real labour shortages in Britain are for jobs which require almost no aspiration at all, beyond a desire not to claim a jobseeker's allowance. For far too long schools have filled kid's heads with totally unrealistic aspirations, and pumped up their 'self-esteem' without bothering to tell them that employers run a mile from self-satisfied little gits who expect to be generously paid for doing bugger-all.
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Unusual job title yes, but not daft job. As a teacher (ex-teacher?) you are probably well aware that low aspirations can have a massively detrimental effect on students.
Another non-job. What next? an 'Achievement co ordinator'? A 'Positive Behaviour Co ordinator'
It's the usual story. Cut back the front line staff but not the joke jobs, or the endless managers.
Er, why can't the subject specialists or the careers (sorry, work-related learning) do this stuff?
Answer: they can/do/should. And if they don't it's because they have to spend too much time on planning/reports/risk assessments/beat their heads against brick walls.
If only this was a case of a fancy name for a job , like road sweepers are now "environmental hygienists".
Just think - a positive behaviour coordinator could just be a big bloke with a big stick.
Aspirations for what? going to university so you can get a job in a call centre?
Let's face it, the only real labour shortages in Britain are for jobs which require almost no aspiration at all, beyond a desire not to claim a jobseeker's allowance. For far too long schools have filled kid's heads with totally unrealistic aspirations, and pumped up their 'self-esteem' without bothering to tell them that employers run a mile from self-satisfied little gits who expect to be generously paid for doing bugger-all.
Interesting jobs site. There's also a position for a Fact Checker - didn't know they had those.....
That's brilliant - create a job for someone to thin out other jobs. Guess you have to break eggs to make an omlette, but this is OTT.
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