Idea 323 of 500. Cluster 16: Education and the exam funnel
Nursing colleges to the British and Australian standard, with the return clause built into the fees
The mechanism, from the book
177,000 qualify every year and 45,000 get a place. The other 130,000 are a market that nobody has built for, and the polytechnic is not a second choice when it leads to a job.
Every idea in cluster 16 uses this mechanism.
A first step
Get the published entry requirements for overseas-trained nurses from the British and Australian regulators, and list what a local course would have to add to meet them. Then ask 20 families with a child interested in nursing what they would pay for a course leading there, with a return clause. Deposits or signed interest from families are the proof.
- Who pays first
- A family whose child wants to nurse abroad and will pay for a course that meets foreign standards, accepting a clause that brings them back.
- What leaves today
- Nurses leave to work abroad with no return, so the island pays to train them and keeps none of the value.
The idea and the mechanism are from the book. The first step was written for this site as a suggestion; if you know a better one, say so.
The test
Does it keep value that now leaves the island, or build the proof that lets somebody else do so?
The only test any idea on this site has to pass. The four rules that go with it are here.
In the book
- Ch. OneThe Letter That Says Yes and Means No
177,588 qualified, 45,000 placed
More from cluster 16
- 321Employer-owned technical colleges: the hotels train the chefs, the port trains the planners
- 322Apprenticeship brokers who match a firm to a student and handle the paperwork, for a fee from the firm
- 324Electrician, plumber and welder certification centres whose certificates are recognised abroad
- 325English tutoring by video for the districts, at a price a family can pay, with a test at the end
- 326Tuition classes that publish their pass rates, so that parents can compare
- 327Coding clubs for schoolchildren in the districts, run by returning graduates
Idea 323 of the 500 in the appendix of Why Not Sri Lanka? Every one can be started by one person, one family or one small firm.