[Jewelry making - Article 00029] - Re: [Orchid] Philadelphia jewelry classes

[Rex & Gabrielle Merten]

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    Dear Teresa I read your post with a great deal of interest. Your
    comment about the differences in training philosophies is
    central to current research I am doing. 

    The Australian jewellery industry has, until recently, been
    served by traditional apprentice-based vocational education.
    However, with the increasingly concerted attempts to destroy the
    apprenticeship system by the economic rationalist policies of
    education department bureaucrats, there is an increasing reliance
    being forced on the industry to draw its replacement personnel
    from university trained graduates rather than industry and
    technically educated apprentices. 

    There are some wonderfully talented and enthusiastic graduates
    coming from the Fine Arts departments of Australian universities
    who have never been shown the most basic technical skills. Their
    employers are tearing their hair out with frustration as they
    have to retrain these expensive employees from scratch. And not
    only retrain, but re-educate them into the realities of
    real-world commerce. 

    With a foot in both worlds of academia and industry (a late
    blooming academic with two contemporary degrees, a B.A. and B.Ed.
    in Adult Vocational Education and forty three years as a
    manufacturing jeweller with twenty years in my own business), I
    am involved in a research project which will hopefully bring some
    sanity back into industry training. 

    Many Orchid members are responding generously to my request for
    information on the type of training that got them started as
    jewellers. So much so that I am reformulating my questions to
    cover the range of information being offered. May I put them to
    you too, Teresa? I will be in touch as soon as they are cogently
    formulated. Best wishes, Rex Steele Merten 

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