We live in a world where ultimately we are told that in order to live a good life we need to do well in education and work hard for our entire lives to get money, and to some extent this can be perceived as true. But is it completely true? Well of course it isn't for people who are born into money because they can live a leisurely life knowing they don't need to work for money - they already have it. This is not what I'm getting at though and this post is in many ways an extension onto a previous post where I talked about how money and material possessions really aren't a compulsory ingredient to happiness.
"I'll be back next Thursday" - Me, July 21st 2016
Good morning, afternoon, night or whenever you're reading this wherever you are. Welcome to "next Thursday", or at least a Thursday. Actually, it's Saturday. Nevermind. The point I'm trying to make is that in my last post I lied again about coming back to regular blogging on a weekly basis, and it's actually been three months since my last post. So without further ado, here's a short post about what I've been up to...
Greetings and salutations, readers. I'd like to begin by apologising for saying that I would be posting every Thursday following my previous post whilst failing to mention that I was going on holiday for two weeks which meant that I was unable to post. What's my excuse? I'm sure you can tell by the post title, but read on to find out more!
So, where have I been? The main reason I haven't been active in the past couple of months is that I've been busy both revising for and doing my GCSE exams at school. For any of my overseas readers who aren't familiar with GCSEs, GCSE stands for General Certificate of Secondary Education. The result of these exams are the outcome of my 12 years of compulsory education and for some people who aren't going to college, they will be the results that get them through the rest of their professional lives. I however will be attending college and I will be attending the taster day in a couple of weeks, so be sure to check back then for some information about what will be my first day at college! How did my exams go though? Read on for more on that...
Being in the final year of compulsory education, a lot of pressure is put on myself and my peers regarding our future career ambitions and really deciding what we want to do with our lives. With that being said, I'd like to share the outcome of these thoughts with you and let you know exactly what my goals are in life and where I want to be in, for example, 10 years. So let's work chronologically with this, starting with my current situation.
This post follows on from my Grades over Education post from last year and is based around the same concepts however is more about how the grades we get affect our lives than how grades interfere with our 'education' receiving.
I'm currently in year 11 which is the final year of compulsory education in England and it is also the year in which we take our GCSE exams. This means that I am just weeks away from beginning my exams and most of my controlled assessments and coursework has been completed, handed in, and marked. One of the most unfair things I see in the current examination process is the inconsistency in marking and difficulty of the exams themselves.
I'm currently in year 11 which is the final year of compulsory education in England and it is also the year in which we take our GCSE exams. This means that I am just weeks away from beginning my exams and most of my controlled assessments and coursework has been completed, handed in, and marked. One of the most unfair things I see in the current examination process is the inconsistency in marking and difficulty of the exams themselves.
One of the most common things I hear spoken about when people are on the topic of gender equality is the amount of women in high up jobs. In my opinion, we have it all wrong when we use this as an indicator of whether men and women have reached equality, however, because gender is not the only factor taken into account when selecting someone to do a job. In fact, it's quite the opposite and this is very rarely a factor taken into account at all. Why? Here's my reasoning...
