I'm a bit of a hate figure
Is he in London, or nearish ?
If you, me and him fancy a beer I'm quite happy to share my odd combination of techie/it journo/headhunter ideas with him.
The first thing that comes to mind is Cisco certification, some colleges of FE offer it as an option and as I understand it combined with a HNC/HND..
I have to say with a heavy heart that doodab is right, firms are pretty anal about degrees these days, don't tell me you don't think that is good or right, I do this crap for a living, I tell it like it is.
Strictly speaking if he attains self taught excellence in C++ or GPU/CUDA there exist jobs for non-grads, but that's actually harder than a degree.
I'm going to make some huge assumptions in my advice here, since I have no data.
My guess is that he hated school, not helped by how tulipe the A level is and someone needs to poke him with a sharp stick with "university is different" written on it. Note different != better, but that is a different problem.
I guess his A level grades aren't stellar as a result.
My call is thus to go and do CompSci at a decent 2nd tier place like Royal Holloway, has a good male to female ration and if he weasels on to the security / infosec modules they are injecting into the undergrad course he will have some marketable skills.
He may have to do some retakes, but the way the system works is that the last grade you get counts, not the average of your retries.
Is he in London, or nearish ?
If you, me and him fancy a beer I'm quite happy to share my odd combination of techie/it journo/headhunter ideas with him.
The first thing that comes to mind is Cisco certification, some colleges of FE offer it as an option and as I understand it combined with a HNC/HND..
I have to say with a heavy heart that doodab is right, firms are pretty anal about degrees these days, don't tell me you don't think that is good or right, I do this crap for a living, I tell it like it is.
Strictly speaking if he attains self taught excellence in C++ or GPU/CUDA there exist jobs for non-grads, but that's actually harder than a degree.
I'm going to make some huge assumptions in my advice here, since I have no data.
My guess is that he hated school, not helped by how tulipe the A level is and someone needs to poke him with a sharp stick with "university is different" written on it. Note different != better, but that is a different problem.
I guess his A level grades aren't stellar as a result.
My call is thus to go and do CompSci at a decent 2nd tier place like Royal Holloway, has a good male to female ration and if he weasels on to the security / infosec modules they are injecting into the undergrad course he will have some marketable skills.
He may have to do some retakes, but the way the system works is that the last grade you get counts, not the average of your retries.
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