The nice people at the BBTS emailed me
this morning.
“Accredited by the world-renowned
University of Manchester, the BBTS Specialist Certificate in Transfusion
Science Practice education course will provide you with evidence of specialist
knowledge in transfusion science required to demonstrate your specialist and
independent practice capabilities.”
This implies that it won’t actually
teach me anything, but just provide evidence of what I already know. But I
wouldn’t mind taking
the course anyway
But…
I won’t say that the cost was hidden, but
it certainly wasn’t obvious. After a few minutes I found that if I were to take
this course it would cost just nine quid short of nine hundred pounds. Back in
the day employers used to pay for this sort of thing for their staff. Today I’d
have to shell out. I suppose these people make their money because they are now
dealing predominantly with a generation which is used to paying for its
education.
I can remember when this course was
first launched. It was supposedly going to be a compulsory pre-requisite for
anyone working in a blood bank. That never happened, but it could have been a
good thing for health care at large if not for my pocket.
Am I being such a reactionary old
leftie in thinking that blood banks might be better served by making these
courses more accessible to their target audience?
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