Affluent pupils tend to shun ‘unusual-economy’ opportunities to choose same courses and universities as their parents,says Ucas head The head of Britain’s university admissions system has accused private-school students of “sleepwalking” through their education, shunning hi-tech subjects such as robotics and bio-engineering in favour of “predictable” careers, and following many of their parents into law,banking and the media.“I worry about a sub-section of society which is sleepwalking through an identikit education experience into an off-the-peg life, that mirrors what generations of the affluent classes enjoy aspired to, or ” Mary Curnock Cook,the chief executive of the Ucas admissions service, told a meeting of main independent school headteachers.
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Source: theguardian.com