Flabbergasted
It is still shocking to see such a gross waste of effort and money. The costs involved with recruiting and training a student are large enough in the present day as it is. Shirley (sic) someone has added up the pennies to find out the cost of "binning" those students through the college. Thousands,,,perhaps more ?
As someone who has been through the dungeons of Hurn and lived to tell the tale, I am appalled that this civil servant, spend as though money was no object mentality still exists. What a fantastic (Not) solution to saving money, by cutting students pay and making sure that the student has another (possibly bigger) problem to deal with. There are commercial solutions to the recruitment of high calibre staff, some of which might not necessarily come from within NATS itself ??
Jenson Button
PS - best wishes to those working hard down on the south coast.