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My boy off to Uni
« on: 18 August 2011, 17:52:42 »
 :) My boy got his results today -he's happy as larry -off to Manchester Uni in a few weeks time, he's the first one in our family to actually get to uni-which proves what a bunch of retards we are ! . Must be great to be young and full of enthusiasm, instead of being a crabby old tw*t like me!
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« Reply #1 on: 18 August 2011, 18:08:32 »
great news for you and for him.good luck to him :y

but by going by the news today though, was there anyone who actually failed there exams.
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« Reply #2 on: 18 August 2011, 18:13:07 »
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great news for you and for him.good luck to him :y

but by going by the news today though, was there anyone who actually failed there exams.


Congrats to your boy Redelite.... :y


I passed my 11 plus some time in nineteen hundred and frozen to death.... ;)
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« Reply #3 on: 18 August 2011, 18:15:02 »
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great news for you and for him.good luck to him :y

but by going by the news today though, was there anyone who actually failed there exams.


Congrats to your boy Redelite.... :y


I passed my 11 plus some time in nineteen hundred and frozen to death.... ;)


i can remember passing my confidence in swimming, thats as far as it got. i still cant swim without armbands and a rubber frog round me  ;D ;D ;D ;D
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« Reply #4 on: 18 August 2011, 18:48:19 »


 



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:) My boy got his results today -he's happy as larry -off to Manchester Uni in a few weeks time, he's the first one in our family to actually get to uni-which proves what a bunch of retards we are ! . Must be great to be young and full of enthusiasm, instead of being a crabby old tw*t like me!

Maybe not the case I don't know how old you are but to put things in perspective when I left school my year consisted of 120 pupils of which only 3 went on to study A levels I don't know how many of the 3 went on to uni.
Great news on your lads results  :y
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« Reply #5 on: 18 August 2011, 18:52:51 »
it was cse's in my day, wasnt good enough for a levels and i wasnt bothered as i had an apprenteship lined up 5 months before i left school. lots more oppurtunities for careers then in the 70s than today, lot of manufacturing jobs available in this country compared with today.
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« Reply #6 on: 18 August 2011, 18:58:27 »
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it was cse's in my day, wasnt good enough for a levels and i wasnt bothered as i had an apprenteship lined up 5 months before i left school. lots more oppurtunities for careers then in the 70s than today, lot of manufacturing jobs available in this country compared with today.


I'm not sure of the exact figure, but I believe that when  I left school in 1976 only about 4% of pupils went on to university.

I believe that  figure is currently about 44%......The last Labour government wanted 50% to go to university. How times change. :-?
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« Reply #7 on: 18 August 2011, 19:01:40 »
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it was cse's in my day, wasnt good enough for a levels and i wasnt bothered as i had an apprenteship lined up 5 months before i left school. lots more oppurtunities for careers then in the 70s than today, lot of manufacturing jobs available in this country compared with today.


I'm not sure of the exact figure, but I believe that when  I left school in 1976 only about 4% of pupils went on to university.

I believe that  figure is currently about 44%......The last Labour government wanted 50% to go to university. How times change. :-?

i cant see how a lot of them have got good grades going by some i have worked with on site, cant add up simple figures in their heads and you have to explain to them 2 or 3 times how to do the easiest tasks.
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« Reply #8 on: 18 August 2011, 19:15:07 »
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it was cse's in my day, wasnt good enough for a levels and i wasnt bothered as i had an apprenteship lined up 5 months before i left school. lots more oppurtunities for careers then in the 70s than today, lot of manufacturing jobs available in this country compared with today.

Thats the way it was in those days I left school on the Friday and started my job as an apprentice prescision toolmaker the following Monday. Jobs where abundant in those days you could finish on friday and be in a new job the following week
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« Reply #9 on: 18 August 2011, 19:28:30 »
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:) My boy got his results today -he's happy as larry -off to Manchester Uni in a few weeks time, he's the first one in our family to actually get to uni-which proves what a bunch of retards we are ! . Must be great to be young and full of enthusiasm, instead of being a crabby old tw*t like me!

Congrats to you and your lad, not the easiest of things to accomplish with everyone fighting for places before the price hike comes in  :y
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« Reply #10 on: 18 August 2011, 20:12:50 »
funny thing is he got a text at 7.30 this morning from uni telling him he was in , then got a letter through the post at 9.30 saying the same thing , so going to get his results at college, which weren't officialy released until 10.00 was a bit of an anti-climax .
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« Reply #11 on: 19 August 2011, 10:40:39 »
My lad has just left Bolton Uni after three year and that has been the making of him.

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« Reply #12 on: 19 August 2011, 11:24:38 »
I left Brunel Uni in 2007, got first job out of that working for Mobile Content & Entertainment company, it does open doors. But I do get annoyed when you see people saying they cannot get jobs, saying "I've applied to about 15 companies"

Errr, I spammed my CV to a couple of hundred before getting my first job out of Uni, its since led me to Sky.

What course is he doing, its really worth doing a placement year, when it comes to interviews post-Uni, if you have at least some experience in work place coupled with your paperwork, it really helps.  :y
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« Reply #13 on: 19 August 2011, 18:02:04 »
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I left Brunel Uni in 2007, got first job out of that working for Mobile Content & Entertainment company, it does open doors. But I do get annoyed when you see people saying they cannot get jobs, saying "I've applied to about 15 companies"

Errr, I spammed my CV to a couple of hundred before getting my first job out of Uni, its since led me to Sky.

What course is he doing, its really worth doing a placement year, when it comes to interviews post-Uni, if you have at least some experience in work place coupled with your paperwork, it really helps.  :y
He's doing a B.A Hons english degree, he wants to be a teacher, not something i would fancy these days, but he has his heart set on it , and who am i to rain on his parade?
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