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Our Universities Are Not Supposed To Be Dustbins For Those That The Government Does Not Want To Register As Unemployed – And Please, Lets Sort Out Their Ridiculous Enrollment Process!!

 

Ask any parent who has had the, frustrating, disappointing, and infuriating task of trying to guide their children into an acceptable University course, and they will be pleased to describe to you the hugely complex and ridiculously laborious process.

Given that the child has achieved the appropriate “A” level results, moving them beyond the “A” level system and into a University should be an easy, and celebratory process, resulting in a rapid and logical acceptance onto the appropriate course.

However, between the Sixth Form Colleges, the “A” level marking system, and the Universities enrollment staff themselves, they have managed to develop a process which would beggar belief if you purposefully designed it that way now.

Furthermore, in all too many instances these days, both the parent and the child’s ambitions are finally dashed, at the very last minute, because Governmental interference has decreed that a child with lesser qualifications, but from a different social background, must be given preference.

The University year should be moved from September to January in order to eliminate the complex selection process, which is currently based on the student’s unknown “A” level results, at a time when the “A” levels themselves have not even been taken by the student concerned.

The obvious solution is that the students should take their “A” level exams in the summer, as they do now, and their papers should then be marked in July, August and September, as indeed they are now.

The Universities would then have October, November and December to complete their interview and selection process, but it would then be done on known exam results.

The “A” level result itself is fine in the form of an A B C D pass level rating, but a pure percentage figure should also be provided. Presumably they mark the student’s papers in that way anyway, so why hide the percentage figure at all.

Then we can move to a far more discerning “A” level result that actually means something to all concerned. We always used to do it this way, and for the life of me, I cannot imagine why we stopped doing so.

Selection for state funded University courses should be completed on merit alone, and not decided through the current obscure political and social engineering that commonly takes place. It is nothing short of lunacy to continue with a selection system which demotes or refuses the brightest in our communities in preference for an underachiever, just because of his/her social background.

Our Country must have the cleverest of our young people educated to the highest possible standards in order for us to compete in the global market place. This, in turn, will win more employment for all of us to benefit from.