My son got through his AS levels and can go on to finish his A levels i`m pretty chuffed. He has done better than i thought he would.
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My son got through his AS levels and can go on to finish his A levels i`m pretty chuffed. He has done better than i thought he would.
No matter what your results are today you should know that with hard work (and little luck) you can achieve good things.
So proud of my son, worked his b077ox off, got 3 grade As in Chemistry, Maths & Biology and off to study Medicine in Sheffield. Couldn't be prouder, state school boy and all his own effort. Didn't sleep a wink last night worrying :). Accepted in Exeter as well, rejected at Cardiff and Wales doesn't have enough f***in doctors, makes my blood boil as it would have been his first choice and he'd have bloody stayed in Wales to work afterwards! grrrrrrrrrrr.
I know, he has worked voluntarily in a care home on Sundays for a year, joined St Johns Ambulance, spent an hour each Saturday night helping disabled kids swim and got a top 3% in the UKCAT score. Absolute disgrace, we're going to every away game as well until he goes away. I promised I'd come up and take him to all the "local" games to Sheffield in the season coming. Bloody joke, my mate wants to see our local MP about it, he was on the verge of tears about the injustice of it!
Too much education reliant on the ability to memorise robotic teaching. Fact.
You can't buy memories I am afraid.
And University has 1,2,3 + years of some of my best. And what I imagine will be her best.
Although you will find the people that tend to drink a lot will have this opinion.
If you find the perfect mix of working/going out happy days.
I massively failed at finding that mix.
Problem I have is a lot of grads get their degrees, expect a magical high paying job when in the real world, not good enough to justify it. That's a consequence of trying to get more and more into universities along with pushing polys into being universities - some of the quality is diluted.
More funding needs to go into more vocational education - hands on rather than academic. Plenty going to Uni at the moment would be better served by such alternative choices.
Fantastic post and I 100% agree. There is a lot of snobbery when it comes to Universities within families and neighbours but people can do full degrees whilst working full time!! A lot of money wasted by families sending their kids to Universities, making up for the fact that they didn't go. Vocational is the way to go.
It's not just families though, it's consequence of successive governments of all ilks emphasising University courses over everything else.
Why should, for example, someone whose skills, talent, ability lend themselves more to being a mechanic have less educational promotion than someone doing a media studies course at Uni?
To a point, I'd agree.
Back in the day, I did the first year of GCSE exams. We looked at old O level papers for Computer Studies for one thing - pretty low level concepts like logic gates, the questions were all binary in nature you were either right or wrong. Come the GCSE exam, the questions were all requiring essay type answers; using a scattergun approach you could pick marks up by mentioning things without necessarily displaying in-depth knowledge.