The automobile repair industry

Abstract

Most colleges of further education nowadays offer a one‐year full‐time course in automobile engineering to young people who leave secondary school at the age of 16. Recruitment of potential students for this course is achieved in a variety of ways, which include the follow‐up of advice given by school careers teachers to their pupils or, alternatively, possibly the result of a careers convention, many of which are held in secondary schools where college lecturers are present to explain details of further education courses and their relevance to jobs in industry. Link courses are also arranged in FE colleges on a day‐release basis for pupils who are in their final year at secondary school, and these courses give them the opportunity to taste a variety of trade technologies, including automobile engineering. Recruitment is also affected by advertising courses in local newspapers, which invariably result in a flood of letters to the college principal asking for further details and an application form.

Citation

Leeming, D. (1975), "The automobile repair industry", Education + Training, Vol. 17 No. 10, pp. 269-280. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb016405