Whenever I read headlines like the one in The Times this week – ‘The new Oxbridge trick – go private then switch to state’ – I am astounded. I’m not shocked that parents are gaming the system - that starts from primary school - but that people care so much about their kid going to Oxford or Cambridge that they will stop at nothing to get them there. No pressure kids, but it seems your entire educational journey is geared towards one destination: Oxbridge, a five-star resort in the Maldives, while literally any other university is the equivalent of Whitley Bay caravan park in the Nineties (maybe it’s got nicer since we used to go there…)
Agreed! And with university fees crippling graduates with debt they can never pay off, is university such an essential experience anyway?
I’m not sure I’d bother these days - hopefully more industries will come up with alternative routes in