Question for univeristy lecturers / admissions tutors..

[rarrie]

Spurred on by the law thread, we are considering taking Critical Thinking to the full A level next year, but want to be clear to students about how it is recieved by universities' admissions policies. Does anyone here know the answer to this? Is it looked on favourably, or as just another faddy subject??? Any thoughts on this one would be received!!

And just for interest, how is the Religious Studies (Philosophy and Ethics) course generally viewed... not quite so important, but would be nice to be able to give decent advice to students, rather than just hearsay!

Thank you!!

[honeyflower]

Any arts/humanities/social science subject should involve the application of critical thinking to a body of knowledge. IME (at more than one 'good' university) admissions tutors tend to be sceptical of subjects where their perception is that the body of knowledge that has to be mastered, understood, critiqued, and analyzed is insubstantial, flaky, whatever. I suspect that for many of them, Critical Thinking would come into that category.

Definitely worth doing at AS level because it should help with skills that would be needed in subjects with a stronger content base. I'm not reponsible for admissions at present, but if I were, I would be happy to see it at that level, or as a fourth A2 alongside 3 substantive subjects.

RS(P&E) would generally be seen as OK, AFAIK.

[rarrie]

Thank you - that is helpful!