Jane, I actually think that the English system makes sense, pedagogically speaking, because it obviously attempts to limit students' exposure to training/performance opportunities of unknown quality. (In other words, the schools don't want people who have just been exposed to good quality training to spoil it by being exposed to that which may not be as good and could potentially undermine what the student has just learned.) I was just commenting that that kind of control might rankle
us sometimes overly independent Yanks!