Wonder what others think of the ideas being put forward re abolition of transition year and school starting age of five.
One of mine , shouldn't have done it,but had no choice,it was compulsory,and it was disastrous for him,as he was too old..
Having said that, wasn't it brought in, in the first place because kids were so young (4) starting school and therefore too young starting college?
All mine started school at age 5 and over,and where I live,the local school don't take them until they are 5 anyway.
If kids don't start until they are 5 ,will the need for transition year be gone anyway?
Re college fees, I'm really amazed at how few hours college students do,on a lot of courses,its six hours a week! Surely this should be looked at..a three year university course could be easily reduced to two years and a four year reduced to three..that way ,the current " registration " fee of 2k a year would be 6k instead of 8k etc..
Certaintly in my kids case,she does 14 hours a week and is bored out of her tree the rest of the time!That and the amount of time they are off in incredible!
One of mine , shouldn't have done it,but had no choice,it was compulsory,and it was disastrous for him,as he was too old..
Having said that, wasn't it brought in, in the first place because kids were so young (4) starting school and therefore too young starting college?
All mine started school at age 5 and over,and where I live,the local school don't take them until they are 5 anyway.
If kids don't start until they are 5 ,will the need for transition year be gone anyway?
Re college fees, I'm really amazed at how few hours college students do,on a lot of courses,its six hours a week! Surely this should be looked at..a three year university course could be easily reduced to two years and a four year reduced to three..that way ,the current " registration " fee of 2k a year would be 6k instead of 8k etc..
Certaintly in my kids case,she does 14 hours a week and is bored out of her tree the rest of the time!That and the amount of time they are off in incredible!
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