DS2 has had a shocking three years. Lockdown was horrible for him, but he's had other things to deal with too, including a real tragedy.
Anyway he got pretty good GCSEs, including maths at grade 8, but hasn't achieved any qualifications since. He's been working, but not particularly successfully, which even if I'm biased, is understandable in his circumstances.
He's now considering Uni, possibly to do maths and we're struggling to understand the routes open to him.
It seems there's nowhere to do Alevels locally F2F, the local FE colleges aren't offering them and schools/6th colleges obviously won't take a 19yo. (He'll be 20 next academic year). He could do Alevels via one of many distance learning providers, but I'm not sure how good this would be for him. He really needs a reason to get up and out and see some people. Also 3 Alevels by distance learning seems a big ask to me, although I suppose he would work at least PT to get him out a bit.
Or access courses, but I'm not sure if Universities like them as much as Alevels, especially for a young person? Plus there doesn't seem to be anything suitable locally (our local college only offers things like child studies and public service) so we'd be looking at living away or distance learning.
What would you recommend? What do "children" who have second thoughts about not doing 6th form do?