Loopoo wrote:
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.
Loopoo wrote:
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.
