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I agree. I think for some people it's a subject in which you tend to get more interested later in life. And it will make a welcome change from my working life programming.
Maybe something to bear in mind when you retire? If you are under 60 there are student loans available, or at least there are currently.
I think I'll definitely look into it at some point. Not sure I'd have the time with my current job but later in life definitely,
I think people get more interested and the curriculum could have been much more interesting. I suppose going to a comp with shite teachers didn't help either.
Same here.
We had a shite teacher, and she loved politics, so political history (corn laws, etc) was our syllabus.
Nowadays they tend to do more relevant 20th century stuff, human rights, rise of the Nazis, etc. I would have loved to do that - or "ancient" stuff. But not the bleedin' corn laws.
Incidentally, it is often said that art is subjective.
Well, I was pretty good at school, in fact the year before my O level I got 2nd prize in a Shell/BP painting comp for Wales &West of England.
Then I failed the O level!
Next year, I got second again in the comp, then retook the O level and got a grade 2 (1was highest, 7 a fail for the youngsters)
The original redbrick universities were:
Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, Sheffield, Leeds, Bristol.
This was extended to include universities given their royal charter between 1900 and 1963:
Aberystwyth, Bangor, Cardiff, Dundee, Hull, Trinity St David, Leicester, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Nottingham, Queen's University Belfast, Reading, Southampton, and Swansea
There are also Plate Glass universities (royal charter between 1963 and 1992) and then New Universities (ex polys etc...)
Wiki definition of redbrick universities:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_brick_university
Major city universities established before WW1 - not Oxbridge or London - and not the post WW2 campus universities or ex-Polys.
I don't need to worry about academic qualifications as I am a Lord. Of Sealand.
If I look at the Russell group list, it contains what I think of as traditional unis. And I don't think of Swansea as redbrick. It's not to say that one is better than the other or whatever. But iny mind there are only abiut half a dozen redbricks.
God I miss uni. Doing stuff you are interested in, in your own time, with your mates. And a solid night out on offer whenever you fancy it
You're supposed to still be confused WB. Means they showed you how to think - you can only come away with the certainty that you know all the answers from one of those new " universities" which used to be polytechnics or 24 hour petrol stations.