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Originally Posted by G UK
This is how I went about it. Full Time work, Day Release to Uni for 8-10 hours of lectures and expected to do all assignments, coursework and dissertations in my own time. This took five years. Meanwhile I was earning a decent wage and bought my own house.
Result = Good job at the end with zero student debts along with several years experience over the grad scheme starters.
Whilst at Uni I had to listen to the complaints of Full Time students about having 3-4 hours of lectures and how they needed more time for coursework etc etc. which always annoyed the hell out of me.
To this day I see how ill prepared many students start work and how so many of them start work thinking they know everything, many students have almost no clue about the real world or its demands although a handful come through who redeem my opinion of them to some degree.
This was all done gaining one of the more difficult degrees, Mechanical Engineering.
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Well done - that can't have been easy - but having no student debt, a decent job, plus your foot on the housing 'ladder' is fantastic.
I have to admit I didn't embrace my opportunity with quite the same success, but ultimately that isn't relevant to my point - in fact my son is probably a better example - he didn't go to Uni, but recently graduated with a foundation degree he achieved while in full time employment. He is now working through the modules to gain a full honours degree, lives in his own house & doesn't have a student loan.
- In my opinion vocational training is the way forward, the 'traditional' route through higher education is not cost effective at the point of delivery, any more.
I would like to see much more support from employers for staff who are willing to train - and more help from the government for those employers offering that support?