Hermione and her parents redux WAS:Re: Wizarding Top Ten

[Geoff]

No: HPFGUIDX 188161

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Bart Lidofsky <bart at ...> wrote:

rick:
> > It is actually amazing, when you think on it, that they'd let Hg go to 
> > Hogwarts at all.  When compared to the Granger's schooling, a Hogwarts 
> > training is more trade school than traditional education. 
 
Bart:
>  In many countries (including Great Britain, I believe), trade 
> schools are far more than they are in the United States (although the 
> United States has some notable exceptions, like the Culinary Institutes 
> of America). In Europe, trade schools are more than learning the basic 
> skills to start at the bottom and stay there; they learn every aspect of 
> the trade as a career, from the bottom level work to running a business 
> dedicated to the trade 

Geoff:
The name "trade school" is not found within UK education.

Courses which are specifically geared to an area such as catering 
or business skills or motor mechanics, for example, will usual run 
as continuation courses from ordinary secondary schools and 
take place in Colleges of Further Education - either post-Year 11 
or post-Sixth Form They are sub-university and may either act as 
a precursor to taking a full degree or issue vocational qualifications 
in their own right.

As one example, the transition from Hogwarts to the Auror training 
scheme echoes this type of educational route in the Wizarding World.