{"id":156815,"date":"2020-08-17T15:48:18","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T13:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/08\/17\/not-sure-about-uni-any-more-heres-what-you-need-to-think-about\/"},"modified":"2020-08-17T15:48:18","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T13:48:18","slug":"not-sure-about-uni-any-more-heres-what-you-need-to-think-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=156815","title":{"rendered":"Not sure about uni any more? Here&#039;s what you need to think about"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For students who aren\u2019t planning on going to university, transferable skills will become more important than everNoah Jones, 18, aims to study psychology at the University of Hertfordshire. \u201cIt\u2019s the perfect uni for me. It\u2019s right on my doorstep and the course is what I\u2019ve always wanted to do,\u201d he says. But since Covid-19, he\u2019s questioning his decision. \u201cThe lack of information has taken its toll and I feel stressed before I\u2019ve even arrived. I\u2019m thinking about going into the care sector instead,\u201d he says.Other prospective students have similar concerns. \u201cI\u2019m mostly worried I won\u2019t get that cliche first-year experience,\u201d says 18-year-old Hannah Carr*, who was hoping to study business at the University of Liverpool. \u201cEvents like freshers\u2019 week help with making friends and the possibility we may have to start university as online classes is a daunting one. Imagine not being able to see the faces of the other people on your course for possibly months?\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/2020\/aug\/17\/not-sure-about-uni-any-more-heres-what-you-need-to-think-about\" target=\"_blank\">Not sure about uni any more? Here&#039;s what you need to think about<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For students who aren\u2019t planning on going to university, transferable skills will become more important than everNoah Jones, 18, aims to study psychology at the University of Hertfordshire. \u201cIt\u2019s the perfect uni for me. It\u2019s right on my doorstep and the course is what I\u2019ve always wanted to do,\u201d he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}