Quote Originally Posted by Leicesterbaggie View Post
I don't understand what happened to my previous post. Must have pressed button by mistake. I intended to say that 20% of pupils from my area passed the 11+. Apparently the national figures varied from 10% to 35%, depending on the area in which you lived. In my case from that 20% only a small number went on to attend university. That puts into perspective Blair's claim that he wanted 50 % to attend. This is why we now have so many 'Mickey Mouse' subjects on offer. Youngsters of today should be looking at other avenues for their futures and not just university. By the way I wasn't one of those who went on to university!!

University is good for some but not others. You have to go to university as we know for law, medicine, teaching etc and still many large blue chip companies fast track university graduates to be tomorrow’s leaders of their companies - if taken seriously it really works as personally seen with many.

I agree there are many subjects though such as business where you would be better off gaining work experience in that role. Thing is a degree is a degree as you could then fast track let’s say teaching in a year as opposed to the three years if of course in later life - you wanted that career path.

University though is costly but many turn to it to boost their CV’S as it’s bloody hard to find a good job unless you want to work in a shop/bar etc. That’s the reality,