My son (15) is doing his GCSEs and wants to do A levels in a college next year. For that, hew has to do an interview. Perhaps even several interviews - one for each topic. (not sure yet)
It's a right pain for us because we will be moving house after the GCSEs, and the college he wants to (needs to, as there is no other there) attend is over 6 hours train travelling from where we live now.
Which means that to go to an interview he has to travel the day before, spend the night over there (fortunately he has an aunt there), then attend the interview and travel six hours back. If the interview is late in the day or if he has more interviews he might even have to spend more nights there.
All those days he will be missing school. Plus, it will cost a lot of money in train tickets.
I've been told that the interviews are 'very informal' and shouldn't take more than 20 minutes. I don't really know the purpose of the interview - is it really so important that he attends that he would have to miss all these school days for the interview? Any idea what would happen if he doesn't attend? Would he not be admitted then?
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College interview for A-levels, too far away?
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Tau · 21/01/2013 20:31
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