HJ on BBC News24

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Sat 11 Mar 2006 09:51
HJ on BBC News24 - Jonathan {p}
HJ
Caught you on the slot about fewer young people learning to drive.
Great interview!

Jonathan
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Sat 11 Mar 2006 10:00
HJ on BBC News24 - midlifecrisis
Quite funny that they kept asking HJ about the Insurance aspect when there was an Insurance guy sat next to him.
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Sat 11 Mar 2006 10:08
HJ on BBC News24 - Armitage Shanks {p}
I recall reading that, apart from the cost of driving lessons and cars, another reason for the decline in learner drivers is that this country's appalling education system cannot equip them to pass the written test!
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Sat 11 Mar 2006 10:12
HJ on BBC News24 - Hamsafar
There are fewer young people, that's why schools and colleges are merging and closing all over the place too.
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Sat 11 Mar 2006 12:29
HJ on BBC News24 - Welliesorter
The interviewer (and the report that preceded the interview) completely ignored one question: is there a decline in the number of young drivers or is there just a fall in the number of young people driving legally.

All the reports state that the number of applications for provisional licences hasn't declined, but that may just be because people want them to use as a form of ID.
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Sat 11 Mar 2006 12:53
HJ on BBC News24 - Robin Reliant
I caught the programme over breakfast, where was the trilby?

I noticed a decline in the number of 17 year olds before I pack up instructing two years ago. A major part of the reason is the massive increase in the number of youngsters staying on for further education and going to university today. They have to exist on the wages from part time jobs and pocket money from their parents, much of which needs to be saved to fund two or three years at uni. The number of teenage pupils I had in the latter years who were in full time work declined to almost nothing.
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Sat 11 Mar 2006 14:12
HJ on BBC News24 - Robin Reliant
There is a space on the back of the Pass Plus form which the instructor can complete to state that so and so did not reach the required standard for whatever reasons stated. As it is not an independant test and the candidate is obviously well known to you as a long standing pupil it would take a fair bit of moral courage to fill that section in.

I never did, and I have never heard of anyone doing so.
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Sat 11 Mar 2006 16:01
HJ on BBC News24 - Ben {P}
When will the interview be on again?
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Sat 11 Mar 2006 16:23
HJ on BBC News24 - midlifecrisis
When will the interview be on again?

He's not that good looking!!
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