UNI Rant

[Niall]

As a country we are screaming out for doctors, nurses, lawyers ect but the problem is, not that many uni students want to do it!
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Niall, it's quite the opposite - Medicine is the most competitive course around, something stupid like 100/200 applicants apply per place at Manchester (was the most applied for choice back in 2009 follwed by Liverpool IIRC).. this was whittled down to 20 people who got interviewed for my place of which there are 400 of per year. So my point is, theres much more applicants than actual places for medicine/dentistry. After Uni, medicine is dog eat dog. Literally.

So much so it's acutally quite depressing, then when you add on the RELATIVELY bollocks pay and stupid hours and years of further training, you wonder just why the fk so many people apply for it :| ..but they do. Need heads checking

Ok fair enough tbh I did make a general assumption with that statement across all the education critical jobs that have been mentioned in this thread.
I know from speaking to people in law at my old jobthat this was the case but then again it's only ever opinion just like this entire thread!

You have however just backed up a point that I made that there is not enough jobs out there for all these graduates and should these unis and government be telling people that uni is the way to succeed in life just for these people to be let down when they complete there degree and don't get a job doing what they want?


Btw I do apologise for going epoch topic in this thread by epic amounts