{"id":3321,"date":"2015-08-18T11:20:18","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T11:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tesyouth.org\/t\/?p=3321"},"modified":"2015-08-18T11:20:18","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T11:20:18","slug":"why-young-people-are-not-going-to-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tesyouth.org\/t\/why-young-people-are-not-going-to-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Why young people are not going to university?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3322\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tesyouth.org\/t\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/uni-student.jpg\" alt=\"uni student\" width=\"291\" height=\"169\" \/><em>Hazel Dawson<\/em>, 18, has just got a B and two Ds in her A-levels, in sociology, government and politics, and geography at Christ the King sixth-form college in Lewisham, London.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Since I don\u2019t know what I want to do for my career, I couldn\u2019t see a reason to go to university. Instead, I\u2019m going to give myself those three years to try out lots of jobs, do courses and volunteering, and work out what I want to do that way.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I feel people my age aren\u2019t allowed to be unsure of things \u2013 it\u2019s all, \u201cquick, make a decision about what you want to do for the rest of your life, and off you go\u201d. But I\u2019m embracing uncertainty \u2013 I want to try to find something I really love.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I\u2019m training for a scheme where I can go into schools to help children learn to read, and applying for retail jobs for the money. I\u2019m living at home: my parents have definitely got me for a while, but I tell them they\u2019re lucky \u2013 it would cost a lot more money if I was off to uni.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">All my friends are going, though \u2013 literally everyone in my year group. My mum supported my decision, but my dad was keen on me going to uni: he\u2019s an academic \u2013 he went to university and never left \u2013 and he maintains I\u2019ll become a student one day. Maybe I will, I think I\u2019d appreciate it more when I\u2019m older.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>George Purchase<\/em>, 18, took accounts, physics and chemistry A-levels at Barr Beacon school in the West Midlands. He got an A and two Bs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Work experience made me realise I didn\u2019t need to go to university. I did a week in the finance department of a hospital, and then another with [accountancy firm] PwC, and I really enjoyed it. At the end of the week, I was put through the assessment scheme \u2026 and was offered a place on the higher apprenticeship in tax.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I had intended to go to uni, but faced with a choice of going through Ucas and three years of studies, or going straight into work, with a guaranteed job as a tax technician while avoiding \u00a39,000-a-year debt in fees, it seemed like a no-brainer. I talked to my parents about it \u2013 they didn\u2019t go to university and although initially they were keen for me to get a degree, we agreed it was better to get straight in and get professional qualifications.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I\u2019ll miss the comparatively laid-back life of education but I\u2019m not worried about missing out on the social bit of uni. A lot of my friends are going to local universities, and with social media I can talk to everyone on Skype and play online games \u2013 technology means distance isn\u2019t really an issue. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/2015\/aug\/17\/teenagers-not-going-to-university-fees-debt\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hazel Dawson, 18, has just got a B and two Ds in her A-levels, in sociology, government and politics, and geography at Christ the King sixth-form college in Lewisham, London&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,44,36,38,5,37,32,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-be-positive","category-entrepreneur","category-internship","category-join-the-conversation","category-news","category-work-experience","category-workshops","category-youth"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Why young people are not going to university? 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