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Horticultural Apprenticeships. Robert E. Mattock Managing Director Robert Mattock ®Roses & Department of Architecture & Civil Engineering Department of Plant Sciences University of Bath. Horticultural Apprenticeships.
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Horticultural Apprenticeships Robert E. Mattock Managing Director Robert Mattock ®Roses & Department of Architecture & Civil Engineering Department of Plant Sciences University of Bath
Horticultural Apprenticeships The research for this project is being under taken in the University of Bath under the supervision of Dr Marion Harney, Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering and Dr John Beeching, Department of Biology & Biochemistry, Plant Sciences
Horticultural Apprenticeships Definition of Apprentice A person who works for another to learn a trade
Horticultural Apprenticeships Definition of a tradesman A tradesman is a skilled manual worker in a particular trade or craft.
The Horticultural Apprentice The Craftsman “Homo faber, Animal laborans” Hannah Arendt The Human Condition 1958 “At different moments in Western history practical activity has been divorced from supposedly higher pursuits” Richard SennettThe CraftsmanYale 2008
Horticultural Apprenticeships Hybridisation (Homo faber, the inventor)
Horticultural Apprenticeships Budding (Homo laborans, The Craftsman)
Horticultural Apprenticeships Historically in the UK and throughout Europe the dissemination of practical horticulture skills descended through: The Head Gardener Journeyman Apprentice The zenith of the head gardener occurred in the U.K. in the late 20th. century
Horticultural Apprenticeships Poland The gymnasium, the secondary stage of general education, is compulsory in Poland for pupils aged 13 to 16. Education at this level is designed to help pupils develop adequate knowledge and skills
Horticultural Apprenticeships Poland Post-Gymnasium Secondary Education: At age 16, the gymnasium graduate chooses to prepare for higher education or to begin training for a vocation. Those seeking the former attend a three year profiled lyceum which confers entitlement to enter a university. Other students choose a two year vocational school, which ends with a vocational examination.
Horticultural Apprenticeships Vocational schools are two-year schools based on the gymnasium model and preparing graduates for employment. The certificate confirms their vocational knowledge and skills. In vocational schools, about 35 percent of the lessons stress general knowledge and social skills and aim to develop proper adult attitudes. The remaining lessons impart intensive vocational knowledge and skills to raise the graduate to the journeyman (or entry-level) employee.
Horticultural Apprenticeships Modern Day Apprentices in Germany The German apprenticeship education is a worldwide unique education system that allows students working in a company and at a profession orientated school at the same time. It is an advanced combination of theory, practice and getting a low salary. This smart education system has a long tradition in Germany, dates back 300-400 years to the Guilds and is seem as the foundation for Germany’s skilled production,
Horticultural Apprenticeships Germany • The 'dual system'. • By law the apprentices must be given structured training by their employer, alongside the general and vocational education they receive. It all ensures Germany has enough labour to do the jobs.“ • Tradition of being loyal to a company • A system supported by politicians and society - and needed by the companies
Horticultural Apprenticeships Germany The trained apprentices are fed into long-term successful businesses, committed to planning future products and investing in the workforce which will be equipped to produce them.
Horticultural Apprenticeships United Kingdom The term apprentice in the UK has been bastardised to include higher levels of education remote from training craftsmen in hands-on skills to the extent that the historic system of apprentice, journeyman to head gardener has for the most part been lost.
Horticultural Apprenticeships Capel Manor College Programmes can take between 12 – 18 months to complete. Apprentices attend college on either a day or block release basis for 12 months. The remainder is spent in the workplace completing a portfolio of work.
Horticultural Apprenticeships How the European systems differ Quality of craftsmen How the end product differs Quality of product
United Kingdom The problem To sustain and increase productivity financial competition has been introduced rather than the encouragement of skilled production and quality.
United Kingdom The problem In the west we have developed a culture whereby management has been encouraged to strip businesses of their working capital and cash flow to provide excessive salaries, bonuses and profit share for profligate personal gratification. There is not enough left in the pot to train the craftsmen necessary for quality production.
United Kingdom The problem Our culture has given craftsman financial aspirations imitative of the personal profligacy of their management way and beyond the profit from the production of the operation for whom they are working.
United Kingdom The result A massively reduced skilled workforce insufficient for the level of production and profit necessary to support the long term viability of the operation. Unsupportable debt and leverage has been used to camouflage the lack of skilled production by importing quality product at a priceaffordable by the consumer.
The solution. Stop management from paying themselves and their craftsman un-realistic salaries and wages and instead invest in the vocational educational training of the productive craftsman.
