Working School (Qualifications)

## Notes

* Working school can be done from the ages of 10-18 (our ages) / 20-36 (Atheirdinian ages).
* Each subject has a minimum study time of 1 year per Level/qualification, and maximum of 10 years, leaving time to do other studies afterwards, or giving you the opportunity to attend Further Development school or Magic school after First school,
* Some subjects take longer to master than others. This means that when you sign up for Working School, you need to plan and pick your subjects depending on how long you’re going to be at the school for.
* Every working school offers the same subjects, but some might have better professors in certain fields, which is why some people may travel to live in different cities or districts to get better quality education.
* Each level achieved counts as a qualification, then the final stage is the ‘Qualified’ achievement. ‘Qualified’ is the highest level of a subject that you can be. Most jobs require you to have at least a level 1 qualification in a relevant subject to be hired, and level 3 or above will usually secure a job application 99% of the time.
* Depending on the difficulty of the job/qualification, the time taken to achieve the next level may be longer or shorter than other qualifications.
* Everyone starts on a basic level, then after the amount of time in the first column of the chart below, they will be awarded their 1st Level Qualification in that subject (IE. It’ll take 1 year to achieve 1st Level Animal Farming).
* Students can take as many subjects as they want, or even just one, and can change their chosen qualifications once every year (they can drop subjects or pick new ones up).
* Most students will choose tactfully, picking a few of the easy 4/5 year  subjects to gain experience and gather the easier qualifications under their belt, then also pick some of the harder or more time consuming subjects to study alongside those as well.
* There are no exams in working school. Once your year(s) are up for your Level, the professor will analyse your work across the year(s) and bump you up to the next level if they feel you did well. If you didn’t do well enough, you may have to retake the year(s) and try to perform better.
* Some qualifications have a lengthy 1st Level, then easier 2nd/3rd/Qualified. These are the subjects that generally have most of the information at a basic/beginner levels, like Baking for example, you’d learn all about the ingredients, processes, methods, and/or healthy & safety stuff in the 1st Level, then the 2nd, 3rd, and Qualified might just be learning different/more complex recipes, alternate methods, or recapping the basics until the students know them well. Subjects tend to get easier the further you get into them.
* (Out of Lore Note) Since Atheirdinian years are about half of ours, 10 years might feel like a long time, but would actually only be about 5 years for us. Everything is spaced out across years in a way for them to absorb it all slowly over time rather than being rushed/underdeveloped.
* (Out of Lore Note) Atheirdin isn’t as progressed as we are in regards to science and technology. This means that for things that might generally take a long time for us to study (ie. doctors needing around 4-7 years to become a doctor), it would be much shorter as they have less information to learn. On the contrary, studying methods would be different to ours too, as they wouldn’t have laptops to work on or the internet for looking something up.