03-11-2024, 07:37 PM
(03-11-2024, 05:49 PM)Ally's Balls Wrote: We live in a very rural area. Most kids around here went to university except farmers kids who carry on working on the family farms. We've got one son who didn't want to go to university so went down the apprenticeship route which included doing a degree and got paid at the same time so no debt.
Our daughter decided she wanted to go university but not in the UK. She went to UBC Vancouver. The locals have nicknamed It The university of a Billion Chinese.It took five years for her degree, a year in work. It's a different system there where she took 30 different modules for her biology degree. Some of those modules included things like learning Japanese, wine appreciation ,film reviews.
Unfortunately now she's living over there with her boyfriend ?
One of my daughters did her PHD overseas (USA) luckily for me she got a scholarship so cost me a lot less than it would have over here. Her opinion of the US system is the rich kids get to do what ever they want as there parents just fund it, the price 5 years ago was around $80.000 a year she also said a lot of them were thick as pigshit !!!
Like your daughter she has decided to stay and make her life there.
We do get good holidays thou hoping to visit Vancouver next year as she based in Seattle about 2 hour drive away.