90% of kids? Interesting statistic.
if not then I absolutely agree, send everyone between 16 and 20 either to war, or train them to go to war if need be or let them become coal miners again or something....
Honestly, how can somebody who has clearly been through even a higher education facility have left without even an inkling as to the power of knowledge????
you have the knowledge, damn well do something with it rather than expecting it to work for you...
90%, maybes slight OTT, Out of my friends etc at uni I would say 70% then, but then you have all the people who do college and then just work, ok maybe Ill go back to 90%. Im doing a IT based degree, I did a maths a-level and a computing one, neither is relevant at all to my degree, I apply no 'skills' or knowledge that I learned in either. I also do a business type module, My business studies GCSE does not help me in that.
Im going through higher education and that is why I have made these comments, because I think education is mostly a joke, you are mostly taught howto pass exams etc, thats not very useful in the real world.
Yes, because national service means sending someone to war? Blatently, because that would be smart. How about just train them to be 'a cog in the machine' and give them valuable skills and training, and not send them to war, but keep the armed services functioning properly?
Its not so irrational you know, Iv got siblings in the forces, they havnt seen real action(my sisters fought pirates here and there but thats hardly WAR), so why would 16-20 year olds be sent to all out war? It would likely be agreed that if national service were to be re-introduced that only professional armed forces personel were on hostile turf at war etc, unless we were fully commited to an all out war of somewhat substantial magnitude.
Hm, 19, not far off then, Thats good you've got a qual that actually has helped you, the BTECs etc and apprentiships are the way forward in my eyes compared to a-levels, its starting to dawn on people that academics is the wrong way to go for a vast amount of youths.
You can generally skip bothering with Further Ed and be offered employment at companys that will send you to recognised training courses etc and gain the real qualifications that companys look for, With a-levels in IT or a degree in networking im sure that you will still need a Cisco Qualification or whatever it is?
You know you can get IT training in the armed forces, they have networks that need administrators too you know, so if you were younger and it was enforced you would have the option to go down that path, and then be able to go straight into a network admin job. Not so harsh is it? Dont hear of many armed forces IT staff or network admins fighting in afghan etc do you?
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