That's it for this weeks game development?

[Loopoo]

College is where most people go and they just get the normal skills needed to move on in life. So they could become plumbers, or gardeners or builders. Stuff like that.

those are called trade/vocational schools, because youre learning a trade

Over in good ol' England, they're called colleges. Colleges churn out the next generation of menial workers. It's where the drop-outs go or people who just haven't got the mental capability. Universities usually churn out politicians and dentists and all those kind of jobs.

But yeah, I guess they're called trade/vocational schools in America.

[CG62]

Colleges in the US say they teach you advanced skills, but you'd be surprised how many people I know who have college degrees and are working at minimum wage.


Universities are just big colleges, from what I've come to understand. I live near a university (my entire town/city (it's city by population, town by size) and I've yet to notice any difference between it and a college.

[Jackard]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocational_school
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocational_education

It's where the drop-outs go or people who just haven't got the mental capability.

an unsurprising viewpoint

[sikgamer]

Silk is right. In a way. College is where most people go and they just get the normal skills needed to move on in life. So they could become plumbers, or gardeners or builders. Stuff like that. University is usually for degrees, so you'd go there if you wanted to get a good job, but you'd need the good grades and the money to get in. So you could go there to become a doctor, lawyer or a vet etc.

Over in good ol' England, they're called colleges. Colleges churn out the next generation of menial workers. It's where the drop-outs go or people who just haven't got the mental capability. Universities usually churn out politicians and dentists and all those kind of jobs.

But yeah, I guess they're called trade/vocational schools in America.

No.

School>College>Uni is the standard format in UK.
You can't just go School>Uni because you need A-levels to take almost every course there.
And A-levels aren't for getting 'normal skills', it's for going beyond the 'normal skills' you're taught in school. In the UK 'normal' qualifications in school are GCSEs, BTECs and Diplomas (I don't know what it is in US). If you drop out of school and/or don't go to college, your life isn't automatically screwed and thrown into a McDonalds branch.

Nor is college for people who can't afford/be bothered to go to uni, because you simply can't jump from school to uni unless you were rediculously smart and could prove it.