@FriendlyLaundryMonster is she year 12?
What's her current discipline/ practice?
In DS experience there is a wholemlot more to uni level art than merely the art.
So far this year DS has had a professional practice module, which has had seminars on different sorts of career, how to write artists statements, social media training, how to professionally photograph work etc.
He's doing a visual culture module on visual culture since the 1970s, so learning about the history of art.
He's also had two studio modules.
He has access to multiple work spaces and workshops. Printing presses, canvas making facilities, IT suites and free software, metal work, woodwork, ceramics, kilns, plaster casting, laser cutting etc etc
He is curating the bar area at the Studio Open weekend and managing the whole space, which the small team have decided to run as a performative piece; organising equipment, a team of people, costumes, performers etc etc.
He's networking at private views, building a social media presence etc.
There's a lot going on. Outcome exhibitions are not everything.
Plus the usual uni experiences, cooking, managing money, laundry, etc
The life and transfersble skills he is developing on the course are huge.