dropping out of degree courses

SlimmingSusan

Dunroamin wrote: »

It's perfectly possible to be educated without doing a degree. Non academic students may well have a more lucrative and fulfilling career by undertaking vocational education (which can lead ultimately to a degree anyway) and not becoming burdened by student debt.

Considering a degree to be the only means of being educated is rather narrow minded and elitist.

Yep, like my ex hubby, earning 90k a year in what he has always done, and has always earned, paying me maintenance, and very jealous of my high grades at my age- happy days. Always was a battle of wits, but great to prove I still got em.

But then our son is non academic, and a plumber, working for himself after leaving school at 16, and always working, but being the first to be laid off etc, when times are bad. But owns his own house (thanks to mother and ex), and doing well.

His younger sister is just finishing the same degree, and looking at a 2:1, but has also worked all along, and my mother is paying for her masters.

Takes all sorts in just one family

I will not ever pay the student finance back, but am on max grants, student support, and am spending the second semester of my second year in Cyprus, at the unis second campus.

What a way to celebrate my 50th year.

Fishy, you could not have put it better. I confess I was a degree snob before embarking on this course, as had a free grammar school education and could have gone to free uni in 1983, with grants etc, but, when I see these students, and the way they embrace me and support me, and the kind of people they are, these are the kind of people this society needs, and the degrees are still hard work, believe me.

fishybusiness

and the degrees are still hard work, believe me.

Indeed they are, finished mine this year in May, at the grand old age of 45

SlimmingSusan

fishybusiness wrote: »

Indeed they are, finished mine this year in May, at the grand old age of 45

Well done- a great achievement, what area did you graduate in?

And, after all the family c**p I have had to put up with, my 80 year old mother said to me the other day, that, all she wants to see before she 'goes', is me to graduate- no pressure then, considering she was the one to stop me at 18- families!!!