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![]() ![]() Meanwhile: ![]() ![]() [A group of A-level students are seen out celebrating their A-level results in Leeds] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ared-year.html Last edited by arista; 18-08-2023 at 01:30 AM. |
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Schrödinger's Quato
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Its funny that when you reach proper adulthood you realise that far too much pressure is put on all of it anyway... there's literally nothing you can't do starting from scratch as an adult (if you're intelligent and capable). You have to take a slightly different route into things but it's always possible. Maybe something like medicine a bit harder -- but who wants to be a medical doctor in the UK these days?
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I think a few of my friends could have done with a do-over after school - they did BS degrees like Media Studies, or academic subjects when they had no interest in teaching or working in a field related to that degree. More than a few wish they hadn't wasted their student finance, and now want to go into nursing or teaching or other jobs which require degrees. Spoiler:
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![]() I wouldn't say the early attempts were a waste of time exactly... I had a blast, there's ALSO certainly something to be said for not ploughing head-first into full time work straight out of school, however it's definitely not what it's intended for and if I'd waited 'til my early 20's rather than jumping in at 18 I'm sure I'd have had just as good a time but also have had a better idea about what I actually wanted to study. That said I'm also a big believer that proper study (philosophy, politics, history) has a benefit that goes far beyond career prospects. |
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Flag shagger.
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They think just one generation has been failed in poor areas? Really? I'd say generation after generation of poor people have been failed by their own country.
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self-oscillating
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inner city schools have been terrible forever
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But as you also said, eighteen (in some cases) is a bit young to be making a decision that can use up their only chance at going to university.
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I have 3 A levels.
English, Law and Sociology. Never needed to show them to anyone. ![]() ![]() A complete waste of study, maybe. ![]() But I remember all that knowledge, and in a way it did give me confidence to know I wasn't thick. ![]() |
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No education or studying is a waste of anything.
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