Nairaland Forum

With the high number of graduates every year and limited opportunities for employment worldwide, if you had the opportunity to become a secondary school leaver would you opt for University Education or Apprenticeship in your field of choice.
Examples:
If you are engineering inclined, with the intention of working in the oil and gas industry. Would you prefer to embark upon a company's engineering scheme or the main stream faculty education?
If you are law inclined, with the intention representing real estate industry. Would you prefer to work as a legal aid or join the main stream faculty of law?

telegraph: Become a lawyer with no degree.
School leavers will be encouraged to skip university and train for highly-paid jobs as lawyers, bankers and accountants in a new wave of “professional” apprenticeships, a minister discloses today.

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