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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D2495/2/1
Title"Unified Vocational Preparation": folder 1
Date1982
DescriptionVTS_01_1.VOB: Film of course students undertaking abseiling training on rocks in the Peak District. During a long section of the film a young woman provides instruction. Names of participants are not given. Duration: 30 minutes

VTS_01_2.VOB: The abseiling section concludes. Later scenes show participants returning to their accommodation at the Hollowford Centre in Castleton and discussing the day's climbing experience. Indoors: a teacher begins a classroom discussion session. Duration: 12 minutes.

VTS_01_3.VOB: Teacher continues the classroom discussion. The decision-making exercise conducted in groups is about how participants would perform patient prioritisation on a hypothetical health treatment waiting list. At 02:47: the teacher reassuresparticipants about the purpose of creating the film, describing it as "a picture of what goes on here. It's not trying to look at you personally, whoever you personally may be. It's just a picture of what we do here at this centre". At 05:30: the camera focuses on the exercise instructions, including a potted biography of the 5 hypothetical patients awaiting treatment. One group talks through the task and creates a priority list, before explaining it to the teacher. Duration: 30 minutes.

VTS_01_4.VOB: Debriefing on the discussion concludes with a reflection exercise. Outdoors: a group of young people attempt to cross over a pond by climbing across on a rope suspended horizontally over the surface. At 06:34: one participant fails, falling in the water. At 07:00: the participants begin a "trust fall" exercise. At 09:50: a group of students begin a task of transporting themselves from one side of a yard to another using a pair of planks sitting on a series of heavy metal barrels. Duration: 12 minutes.

VTS_01_5.VOB: The barrel exercise concludes. Duration: 7 minutes.
LevelItem
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorNorth East Derbyshire College of Further Education, Clowne
Access ConditionsThese digital records can be viewed on the public computers at the record office in the Digital Repository, Born-Digital Archives folder.
FormatDigital
Audio-visual
TermCoal mining
Training
Vocational training
Education
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