'Huge job cuts' for public sector

[DimPrawn]

http://www.rcgp.org.uk/pdf/SYWTBGP%20Booklet.pdf

If you've got a degree you can take a conversion degree (medical) in 4 yrs instead of 5.

Once you have this, you are basically laughing.

I'm too old to be chopping and changin but if I were young and had enough money to support myself for the 4 yrs, I'd jump at it.

Job for life at stupendous salary and all the nurses you can eat. And a pension that makes bankers looks like paupers.

[Menelaus]

http://www.rcgp.org.uk/pdf/SYWTBGP%20Booklet.pdf

If you've got a degree you can take a conversion degree (medical) in 4 yrs instead of 5.

Once you have this, you are basically laughing.

I'm too old to be chopping and changin but if I were young and had enough money to support myself for the 4 yrs, I'd jump at it.

Job for life at stupendous salary and all the nurses you can eat. And a pension that makes bankers looks like paupers.

Graduate entry medicine, even for science graduates, is exceptionally competitive - I know, I've been trying to get into it for years and failed every time.

[DimPrawn]

Graduate entry medicine, even for science graduates, is exceptionally competitive - I know, I've been trying to get into it for years and failed every time.

Funny that Britain imports thousands of doctors from abroad every year rather than train it's own people.

[TimberWolf]

http://www.rcgp.org.uk/pdf/SYWTBGP%20Booklet.pdf

If you've got a degree you can take a conversion degree (medical) in 4 yrs instead of 5.

Once you have this, you are basically laughing.

I'm too old to be chopping and changin but if I were young and had enough money to support myself for the 4 yrs, I'd jump at it.

Job for life at stupendous salary and all the nurses you can eat. And a pension that makes bankers looks like paupers.

I'm a bit too old for that kind of change now too, I should have tried when I saw the writing on the wall in 2001.

[Menelaus]

Funny that Britain imports thousands of doctors from abroad every year rather than train it's own people.

WHS*1000.

[TimberWolf]

Graduate entry medicine, even for science graduates, is exceptionally competitive - I know, I've been trying to get into it for years and failed every time.

What about dentistry? I thought Dentists were failed Doctors?

[pzz76077]

Not too sure that cuts in the NHS will impact on IT folk as most of this is outsourced anyway.

The big cuts will be in central government where there are literally thousands of contractors in IT related roles.

One point to bear in mind: in many cases Government Agencies have a legal obligation to deliver essential services and must maintain these services somehow without the aid of contractors in the future it seems.
The only way this will happen is for more work to be sent overseas (non-sensitive work) or the larger consultancies pick work onshore. Either way bad news for us.

PZZ

[Menelaus]

What about dentistry? I thought Dentists were failed Doctors?

True, but I hate dentists, so it'd be a bit hyopcritical of me to become one.

Plus, I think I'd be too tempted with a chav in the chair to inject them with pethidine.

[FSM with Cheddar]

Stay on target

There is a shortage of professional IT and engineering personnel in this country. The universities are under subscribed, and for the first time ever one of the best graduate training courses in the country (Rolls-Royce) couldn't fill all it's places.

We are in a high demand sector, and that demand is going to increase over time as the shortage increases. This may sound rubbish to someone that has been on the bench for 6 months, but the long term prospects of our sector are good.

[DimPrawn]

There is a shortage of professional IT and engineering personnel in this country. The universities are under subscribed, and for the first time ever one of the best graduate training courses in the country (Rolls-Royce) couldn't fill all it's places.

We are in a high demand sector, and that demand is going to increase over time as the shortage increases. This may sound rubbish to someone that has been on the bench for 6 months, but the long term prospects of our sector are good.