the school gave a talk about UK universities this evening. i insisted that jj and i go, even though she says she is not interested in them. i figured it doesn’t hurt to have information about them. you never know what will happen in the future. plus, the education has the possibility of being pretty cheap.
however, the UK higher education system is very “focused” . one chooses a university based on the area of specialization, which one needs to choose in the last year of high school. actually, one has to choose before that to have the requirements for that specialization. the other factor is location of university. interestingly, most kids want to be as far away from home as possible, so because of the concentration of population around london, the very far away scottish universities are very much in demand. in any case, it was interesting and because of the specialization, we agree that the american university system is preferable, with the ability to “taste” a variety subjects before choosing.
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