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In order to get a place in university sometime you have to do subjects you do not want. When it came to proper 'O' levels, well before GCSE (or whatever alphabet soup they are today), I wanted to do computer studies, but my parents selected me to do chemistry as that was a requirement of most universities.

But on my wider point there seems to be a shortage of people doing the sciences, especially Physics, because it seems hard.

We are going to have a lot of people trained to do media but no engineers, technicians or scientists to design, build and maintain the hi-tech gizmos the media people like to use.

As for snobbery it seems perfectly acceptable to say you know nothing about physics, chemistry or biology, but an absolute faux pas to not know what is going on in Eastenders, Brookside or Coronation Street.

There seems more kudos to do the Arts and relegate science and engineering to a second class status

As for Latin, I would love to have done that, especially as one of my interests is etymology.