The Failure
‘CONGRATULATIONS to the Times on finding one of the three per cent of A-level students not to pass their exams.
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| More blonde girls pass than ever before |
While the Telegraph sticks with the traditional picture of a couple of blondish girls throwing their heads back as if in a hair care commercial and facing up to rosy futures with white teeth and excited eyes, the Times shows a chubby girl in a state of resignation.
Her name is Karin Sime, and she is the ONE OFF: the girl who failed hr A levels.
Rightly, Karin is held up to the world at large as a freak. Hers is a brain to be studied. And on the Timess page seven, we read that Karin, 18, who had dream of becoming a vet, scored two U grades in her biology and environmental science AS-levels.
Poor old Karin. She says shell probably take a year out and then retake her exams. But the Times is unsure of this plan, and it asks: Can you help Karin? It invites readers to email in their suggestions and tips for this noteworthy failure.
Our suggestion is that Karin is placed in a cage at the Science Museum, her life forming part of a module in some GCSE project. Or else thrown into a pond.
But before the winning suggestion is announced, there are yet more pressing things on the education agenda.
The front-page of the Times is not all about young Karin, but leads with the headline: Universities to close the door on 60,000.
So many students have done so very well in their big tests that a record number of them have already claimed places at their chosen universities.
Good news for them. And made all the more enjoyable when the winners learn that there are 100,000 wannabe graduates now chasing just 37,000 vacancies in the scramble to avoid getting a job thats known as clearing.
This means that students who want to study will have to try and get in wherever they can. They will spend part of the summer holidays chasing a place on some minor colleges least popular courses.
But there is only enough room at the University of Teesides undergraduate programme in Sociology & Youth Studies, and 60,000 students will not get in anywhere.
Unless they chose to enter the University of Life, or McDonalds, as its popularly known…’
Posted: 19th, August 2005 | In: Uncategorized Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
