Thursday, 4 April 2013

What are your courses like?

Here's another view of our newer classroom. As you can see, new does not mean spacious. We have up to 19 or 20 students at the beginning of a course, and the room gets very crowded. In summer it can get hot ans stuffy, but we are leaving the hot weather now. Most times, we would still have about 13 or 14 students by the end of the course. We graduate up to 70 students in aged care each year.

We would love to know more about your class sizes?

We run the CIII Aged Care either 4 days per week for 6 months or 2 days per week for 12 months. Is this a similar length to your courses?

We also run CIII Disability, and CIII Home and Community Care (which combines disability and aged care), they are about the same size as the aged care course. There is a suggestion in Australia of combining these into one course with three specialisations. That would be more like it is done in the UK. Is Aged Care a separate course in Sweden, or is it combined with disability etc?

Once people have their CIII Aged Care and have a bit of work experience, they sometimes come back and do a CIV Aged Care. This helps them develop their skills as team leaders and as lead workers.
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  1. helenh2015.blogspot.com6 April 2013 at 05:49

    We have three youth classes. First year goes 17 students, second year 11, and third year it is 16. In the adult class, which began in January, we have 24 students but in those classes is usually around 5-8 quit before the training is over.

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  2. Liz Henigan6 April 2013 at 23:53

    There are so many things that prevent our students from finishing the course - family pressures, realising the course is harder than they can manage, needing to get a job quickly - are these the same sort of reasons that your adult learners quit?

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  3. helenh2015.blogspot.com7 April 2013 at 01:55

    Yes, it looks the same here. It happens so much more in an adult's life, family, children and so on

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  4. AnnaCarin Lind22 April 2013 at 22:13

    In the adult class there are 60 students divided into two groups. They read the course and during their third semester chose a speciality like aged care. Our system is more like that in the UK.

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