Ucas really?

UCAS stands for Universities & Colleges Admissions Service, and this service is very limited and set back to over a decade ago. A student must only apply to 5 choices of undergraduate courses, and can only have 1 personal statement to cover all 5 courses.

I feel as though the personal statement stops students from being honest and it defeats the motive of universities and colleges choosing students due to their personality and their skills. What a personal statement does is torture a student for over 2 months or more while they should be focusing on their studies.

What happened to those short paragraphs containing the facts, containing the only useful information a University or a college requires to give an offer to a student. Today it is true that creativity is seen as inferior because nearly every teenager is told to conform to the patriarchal, sexist, society that slowly has become a cruel world for so many.

In a time of cuts surely, University admissions officers should not be reading hundred personal statements with a few structural variations about how students believe that they have achieved all they can and how the universities are such a bore.

I am going through UCAS extra because i was pressured into choosing 5 courses back in November, i was given what 3 weeks to decide a course that i would study for the rest of my life. This seems corrupted and it is a shameful shame upon many people who drop out during their course simply because its not what they want to do. Yes lets not stereotype an entire generation as the vast majority of students do not drop out but the ones that do, are causing more damage to the system than they realise. Since when did gaining 3 A*s automatically label a person as the most cleverest person in vicinity, it may simply mean that individual has extensive knowledge of 3 certain subjects and they consistently performed well to achieve those grades. Yet put them in an office and give them a job to do, and they will be looking for the closes window to jump out because they are able to adapt to the challenging and rapidly changing demands of the larger world where coursework, exams and practicals barely have any affect on people's lives.

What is the point of going to university, paying for a £3000 pound tuition fees on top of other numerous costs and than realising that since the day you could spell the entire alphabet, the adults in your life have been running your life and suddenly you're a 19 year old University drop out simply because you don't know what to do with your life.

Hi

Who am i?

I am currently a student at a 6th form college in the UK. I will writing on this blog about my views towards higher education in the United Kingdom. I feel that there are a variety of things wrong with the culture and the views we hold towards higher education. I feel as though in todays society, students are told to follow and yet they aren't given the opportunity to learn for themselves instead of the syllabus.

Our current education system is so bureaucratic that many educators feel more comfortable with young adults today copying and pasting words from a textbook instead of finding out and changing the world for the better. One may ask, isn't this what the "hippie" generations back in the 60's/70's set out to do? I would answer as yes, but they succeeded, the world we live in today is a much better one than the world back in the 70's. Back then corruption filled every corner of government. Aristocrats and Aristocrat wannabes got away with murder while the working man slaved away.

I am told everyday that i must achieve my target grades meanwhile individual teachers encourage me to go beyond the exam paper. I have a mind that is not just for answering questions made by a few individuals who do not understand or have long forgotten the fundamentals of education.

Children today are told to chase money instead of their dreams. The insecure desire for financial security means that until the day many people die, they will have hated their lives because they slaved away for decades because they chased money and at the end of the road, there is only so much that money can buy sometimes if you have too much, it changes who you are as a person.