Then, incredibly, the parents are blamed for not participating and involving themselves more in that hostile environment and when many of them thought that teaching their kids was the job of, well, teachers.

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Universal offers a hybrid of the clunky industry-standard teaching pendant and a simple teaching-style point and click programming environment which enables it to be quickly trained.

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"We would have members of local industry contributing to the teaching, so it's very much a real-world environment which we think would motivate some young people and give them high aspirations, " added Mr Jacobs.

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