Sue the examination board for the cost of a gap year (to be spent doing something CV-worthy) and reapply for York next year?
This. Depending on where you live, maybe a role in a quasi-legal department in the public sector. Various regulators have lots of legal functionality, and a junior position there could usefully soak up a lot of knowhow in a year.Congrats to those with some fantastic results.
If Woodface Jnr is likely to carry a bit of a disappointment through Uni, surely worth looking at a gap year? I’m sure York would consider awarding a place for next year if approached?
A year earning some cash, maybe in some admin/clerk legal position would be no bad thing.
This. Depending on where you live, maybe a role in a quasi-legal department in the public sector. Various regulators have lots of legal functionality, and a junior position there could usefully soak up a lot of knowhow in a year.
Yeah, I know what you mean but it has to be his choice. He has the opportunity to do a year placement within the course so I think that is a good option. He has had far greater opportunities than I had, this summer he has been to Barcelona with his GF, rented a cottage in Derbyshire with his mates, been to Lanzarote with us & just come back from Leeds Fest. He has also picked up some work at Tramlines Festival & a recent Ed Sheeran gig in Leeds.I don't think that he'll go wrong with Newastle, it's a good place to be a student. Lots going on, accom not too costly, decent redbrick uni all round.
Up to him to gap year or not, it's one thing that I would change, I didn't and I was still very young when i went to London. A year of growing up would have been very useful, and probably more fun than the 3 years I served in London. The only person I saw waste a gap year was a kid in the year above, or maybe 2, he fancied himself as a bit of a politico and just hung around town without getting a job. He was often to be found "just passing" school at tipping out time so that he could find people to talk to. Everyone else I knew did well out of it, even my pal who dropped out of Oxford after a term and went on to Imperial the next year. His dad, a farmer, said "you needn't think that you can sit around here rent free doing SFA" and put him to work on the farm at the appropriate rate of pay. He and everyone else came back a lot wiser. The rest of us, who were all Thatcher's children, were on the conveyor belt of school-university-job-marry-house and we all believed that if you took any time off you were a fool who would be left behind. No you won't.
Know quite a few clients who started off as interns & went on to have good careers.Absolutely it's his choice, and if he feels that he's lived enough life to go to the next stage then that's up to him. The last thing anyone wants is for him to feel that he is dossing about and wasting time, like the kid from my school all those years ago. Provided he's had the conversations and he's choosing with his eyes open then that's all you can do. I agree that a year placement is a great opportunity, I have worked with a number of placement students and in many cases they do better work in that year than some who go straight through and appear as "completed" graduates who have never been anywhere beyond school and university. I have every confidence that they go back to the final year's study with a much better idea of what they are doing it for.
Yes, he has guaranteed accommodation. I wouldn't want him in some ares of Newcastle to be fair.Newcastle is great for students. Although rents are rising as they all want to live in Jesmond! No longer want to rent in the cheap areas. Is he in Halls this year?
Same in Leeds. They pay a huge premium to be in Headingley, very few live in Meanwood, few in Kirkstall, both of which are nice, and none want to live in Bramley or Armley (which I can understand, but if you select your street you can do well). I don't understand why when it's 2 miles to the Uni by bike (a trip down the canal, if it's light) and you can have a whole 2 bed house for £500 a month, when students in H'ley are paying that for *a room* in a shared house.Newcastle is great for students. Although rents are rising as they all want to live in Jesmond! No longer want to rent in the cheap areas. Is he in Halls this year?
I don't think that he'll go wrong with Newastle, it's a good place to be a student. Lots going on, accom not too costly, decent redbrick uni all round.