What Paths Are Open For Those Leaving School In The Age Of The Internet?
Recently, there have been enormous changes to the higher education sector:
• University tuition fees for UK students, once non-existent, now stand at a staggering £9,000p.a.;
• Visa for overseas students have become far more dificult to obtain;
• The British government has been encouraging more and more people to go to university, meaning that a university degree no longer has the cachet it once did.
The status around the world of a genuinely accredited British qualification remains high; however the means of achieving this have changed considerably, and there is naturally a reappraisal of the system as students become picky consumers and universities can no longer call all the shots. University has become only one of the many options young people are now at liberty to appraise:
The choices facing them include:
• Get a trade, perhaps throught the old-fashioned route of an apprenticeship;
• Enrol in a vocational training course;
• Just get a job. Any job;
• Go to university immediately upon leaving school;
• Go to university after a gap year;
• Work and then go to university when you know what you need to study for your career.
Your average graduate earns £100k more than those who took no university education – but a person with the capability to go to university is also likely to be shrewd enough to realise the changing situation is upsetting conventional certitudes and be sure enough of themselves to avoid the university trap.
The last 15 years have elucidated one fact above all others: there are many different means to achieving the goal of an accredited UK qualification, than merely those labelled ‘university’. The problem many people find with university is that you actually have to go there: move home, friends and family, take your life and relocate it in a new area. A person with no ties can thrive on this but it may be less than perfect for someone with a family.
If you have come to a time in your life when you know exactly what you want to study, and you don’t want the upheaval and financial pressure of moving to a university, a course of web-based distance learning is probably your best bet
Browse around the online courses out there; far cheaper, they offer flexible learning with an accredited qualification at the end. And studying using distance learning methods show that you have the initiative to succeed in today’s market. Without racking up enormous debts.