University, how important is it to go?

Nowadays to have a good platform for life, University is vital. Colleges, I would say are second to Universities and you can't comapre the two. My respect comes from educated people and nowadays even one undergraduate degree isn't enough, you need to keep updating to post grad, masters etc.

Doing this will ensure you have a great platform for life. You may argue you can get away without it, but life will be much much more tougher if you don't go and you don't apply knowledge in the field you would like to study. It also gives people respect, rather than someone who did nothing about it. Any of Unin in the eyes of an employer makes you ten fold more likely to land a job in the specific area of study.

It depends what you want to do in your future. You have to remember that many people can't afford to go to university - yes you can get student loans etc but sometimes you just cant afford to go.

I think its important now a days as its getting harder and harder to get a job everyday and thanks to out sexy new Prime Minister, more people will be made redundant. The more things you can show off in your CV the better. But getting just a degree is useless if you did no work while you were at university. Businesses now want people who will be self motivated. Remember getting a first doesn't always mean you will easily get a job. They will try and look at your personality, did you get work experience or try and get a job while at uni (and I dont mean the ones working in ASDA etc)?

Its like the kid who was kicked off the Apprentice last week - he might look great to someone on paper when you see he has been a CEO of two businesses, but his personality is awful. He can't manage a single person if his life depended on it. He has a big ego where people similar to him always think they are better than others and thus always right.

Even for those who do Medicine or Law, its not easy to get a job. There are many people who get a degree here and go work in a different country as there is more demand in that country.

I don't think it's as important as people make out. For me, it was just a forgone conclusion that I was going to go. I wish I had thought about it more though but that's life. Anyway, you just have to look at some of our highest paid stars... did they go Uni?! Nah, they're as dull as anything :P Or even people who are reaaaally successful, Lord Alan Sugar left school at 16 and I think Richard Branson did too?

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I don't think it's as important as people make out. For me, it was just a forgone conclusion that I was going to go. I wish I had thought about it more though but that's life. Anyway, you just have to look at some of our highest paid stars... did they go Uni?! Nah, they're as dull as anything :P Or even people who are reaaaally successful, Lord Alan Sugar left school at 16 and I think Richard Branson did too?

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Yes but they are the minority, not the majority.

Granted. However, I really don't think it's essential. Look at all our moviestars/footballers/pop stars. In fact, the majority of people in the UK don't go University and only a minority are in 'poverty'.

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Originally Posted by doherty

Granted. However, I really don't think it's essential. Look at all our moviestars/footballers/pop stars. In fact, the majority of people in the UK don't go University and only a minority are in 'poverty'.

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The chances of most people not going to university becoming a movie star or a footballer etc is slim though.

Yeah but that doesn't answer the point about a minority going to Uni and a minority really struggling as in not being able to feed the whole family as is the case in other countries. My dad didn't go to uni and he's a well enough paid professional.

I'm at uni now because:

At the time of the my A levels I didn't feel ready to go into work.
Thought I might be able to 'ride out' the recession for 3 years.
The jobs that I finally decided I wanted to do all required an environmental degree.

It solely depends on what you think you want to do... For myself, going to university was a bad idea, it would have just been a waste of three years of my life, so I didn't bother.

Yeah, there's a huge difference into drop outs and people doing other education in the shape of courses and all that.