Re: State pension scandal …
Originally Posted by
OldGreyFox
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I don't know what the situation is in the area where you live Dex, but I'm aware of many young people (Twenties and thirties) where
not a single one of them (my daughter, two granddaughters and friends included) ended up doing the job that they were trained and qualified to do at University. My best friends son who gained qualifications in physics at Oxford, is now a professional poker player, and actually runs a successful tutoring website. It would be interesting to see any statistics on just how many students that graduated from university are actually following their chosen course of training.
I take your point about the job that graduates do often has no bearing on what they studied. The question is (and my suggestion is) whether they end up getting better paid jobs purely on the basis that they did an HE course.
On an anecdotal note, I have a degree in pure maths and a post grad certificate in education. Even though I taught maths at GCSE and A level, I have never used any of the things I learnt at Uni at any stage throughout my career; nor has anything we studied on the teacher training course been of any use.
However, I would not have been allowed to become a teacher without getting a degree.
Begs the obvious set of questions!!