On Wed, 03 Jul 2013 09:35:53 +0100, Tim Watts wrote:

If I were 16 now, I would be giving serious second thoughts to going to
university with the extorninate costs involved.

er, I'm sure you realise that you don't go to University at 16, you
go to "Sixth Form" to get A levels to go to University at 18...

The costs, well the student loan is cheap money and you don't start
paying it back until you are on a reasonable income and even then
it's at a pretty low rate and it gets written off after 25/30 years
or so.

No.1 Daughter is currently "in limbo" between Secondary and Sixth
Form. I'm only half keeping an eye on the University Fees/Student
loan stuff as they are almost bound to change the rules again between
now and two years time...

Assuming I knew I was handy with computers, I would probaby consider
apprenticing with a company that did something with networking,
datacenters or similar.

Bits of paper are useful but I do agree that real experience in the
work place has a lot of value to employers. If it only shows that you
are willing to get out there and do something rather than sit around
waiting for something to happen.

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Cheers
Dave.