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A Level results day: Is university the right next step for me?
National World - LocalTV
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02/08/2024
Amid recent criticism for the sheer number choosing to go to uni, amongst former students, graduates are still keen to recommend the step to the next generation.
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I suspect there'll be quite a lot of trepidation at the moment, real anxiety about whether
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they're going to be able to achieve the results that they're looking for in their A-levels
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or T-levels or whatever qualification that they've done, and anticipation about going
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off to university. So quite a lot of anxiety. But I suppose the key thing to remember is
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not to panic, is that when you do get your results, just take a moment, check that you've
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got, you're still going to be accepted by your first choice university, and if not,
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there's always clearing. And clearing is a perfectly respectable way in order to be able
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to secure a place at university for the future.
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Those awaiting results might not know whether or not they want to go to university yet,
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but it's worth bearing in mind 65% of graduates would do university all over again for personal
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friendships and 57% would do it for the work networks it's given them.
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But what these results suggest that actually, not only does it give you great preparation
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for your career, 82% of them were saying that, that this was really good preparation for
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the careers that they then pursued. About two thirds then saw it as giving them absolutely
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key in being able to secure an interview to get a job, and 80% really valued the practical
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expertise that they got from their university experience, so real hands-on experience of
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work. But more interesting than that, I think, is the fact that the university experience
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gives 82% of those people preparation for life, so it really gives them the opportunity
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to be able to build the resilience, the problem-solving, and the personal connections that really stay
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with them through the rest of their lives afterwards, which I think is just fascinating,
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because we can get really focused on that sort of, I'm going to do an education degree
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to become a teacher or whatever, but actually the experience that you get from university
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is much broader than that and can set you up for a range of different careers.
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