Reply to: It's important you get your children to university....

[Clippy]

Kids just need to focus more on vocational degrees such as:

Cleaning

Why bother with a degree when you can learn on the job and be on TV.

[SueEllen]

Kids just need to focus more on vocational degrees such as:

Cleaning

That's a foundation degree or what was known as a HND.

[Mich the Tester]

Kids just need to focus more on vocational degrees such as:

Cleaning

A degree in watching telly;

Screen Studies MA - The University of Northampton

[Pondlife]

Kids just need to focus more on vocational degrees such as:

Cleaning

Is that the course Kryten did?

[BlasterBates]

Kids just need to focus more on vocational degrees such as:

Cleaning

[SueEllen]

I know a couple of guys who worked for PWC and they hated it.

I use to know lots of people who worked for PWC....they all left apart from one... However that's nothing to do with the price of fish as they also do other functions.

There are lots of small accountancy firms who will employ a 16-18 year old and allow them to do their training whilst working. Some of them will also sponsor the trainee.

Though having worked with kids aged 16-18 and been served by them it seems that only a few are employable straight from school and it seems to be getting worse every year.

The larger firms who have apprenticeships are overrun with applicants.

[KentPhilip]

ftfy

Well OK yes I was on pot-wash 3 days a week. <rumbled>
But I made £3.20/hour and got to bow for the master and fellows at high table during Michaelmas and Lent terms 1989/90..

[Mich the Tester]

The comment from one person I spoke to was that it was easier to get into Oxbridge then it was to pass the criteria PWC are using.

I know a couple of guys who worked for PWC and they hated it.

[Churchill]

The comment from one person I spoke to was that it was easier to get into Oxbridge then it was to pass the criteria PWC are using.

Evidently.

[Spacecadet]

The comment from one person I spoke to was that it was easier to get into Oxbridge then it was to pass the criteria PWC are using.

there is a lot more to accounting than PWC!

[eek]

Accountancy seems to be one of the professions which is still telling people that they can get into it without having to go to uni.

The comment from one person I spoke to was that it was easier to get into Oxbridge then it was to pass the criteria PWC are using.

[Mich the Tester]

Jeez have they changed the name of that place again!

When I was working in the canteen at Cambridge (University, the real one) we used to look down our noses at the plebs in "Cambridgeshire College of Arts and Technology" (CCAT) canteen.
Then it became "Anglia Higher Education College Canteen" (AHEC).
Then "Anglia Polytechnic Canteen"
Then "University of East Anglia Canteen" (I think),
and now "Anglia Ruskin University Canteen"
and from next week it's called "Sodexho"
.

ftfy

[Mich the Tester]

are you keeping that in mind for next time?

Worked for him and he's only a little bit uglier than me;

[KentPhilip]

Yep, Anglia Ruskin or Brookes.

Jeez have they changed the name of that place again!

When I was at Cambridge (University, the real one) we used to look down our noses at the plebs in "Cambridgeshire College of Arts and Technology" (CCAT).
Then it became "Anglia Higher Education College" (AHEC).
Then "Anglia Polytechnic"
Then "University of East Anglia" (I think),
and now "Anglia Ruskin University".

[Spacecadet]

You don't need to go to university to do well in life. You just need natural charm, wit and athleticism so you'll have half a chance of marrying upwards.

are you keeping that in mind for next time?