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Skills training has something of a problem: It can be rather boring or, worse, pointless.
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Emma Jacobs
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A few years ago, I spent an enjoyable morning sacking an older male worker. Then, armed only with GCSEs (General Certificate of Secondary Education) in biology and chemistry, I brushed up on my surgical skills by looking over the shoulder of a doctor in an operating theatre. It was easy enough. I did not even have to change into surgical scrubs.
It was pretty low stakes because I was not, after all, actually forcing a man into redundancy or figuring out how to amputate a leg, but trying out the latest professional training development using virtual reality headsets.
