MBL: Coronavirus: Should I go to university this year?
Money Box
BBC
4.2 • 825 Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Online lectures yet full tuition fees; socialising at a distance and virtual fresher's events - all because of the pandemic. So is it financially worthwhile going to uni this year, if you won't be getting the university experience you’d hoped for or dreamed of? How valuable is a degree for your future earnings? Is it better to do an apprenticeship, to earn as you learn? Or ditch higher education altogether and dive into the uncertain jobs market? We'll be taking questions and hearing the dilemmas of school leavers across the across the UK as they decide what to do next.
Join Adam Shaw and a panel of guests - and share your views and experiences. Email moneybox@bbc.co.uk or tweet @moneybox
Guests: Dr Maria Neophytou, acting CEO of Impetus Paul Johnson, Director, Institute for Fiscal Studies Sophie Graham, a National Careers adviser
Producer: Sally Abrahams Editor: Emma Rippon
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| 0:48.1 | Hello. First, A-levels were cancelled. Now many university lectures are online. There are worries about social distancing during COVID, yet university fees, well, they have to be paid |
| 0:53.9 | in full. It's all focused more |
| 0:56.4 | attention on whether it's financially worth going to uni. Is it, for instance, better to do |
| 1:01.8 | an apprenticeship, to earn as you learn, or why not ditch higher education and dive straight into |
| 1:07.0 | the jobs market? That's the issue for today's Moneybox Live. If you've a question, indeed, if you've an experience to share that you think is relevant, |
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| 1:28.2 | Well, let's talk to Emma from Bromsgrove, who is asking, I think, the really big question here. |
| 1:34.5 | What is the value of going to university? |
| 1:37.5 | Hello, Emma. |
| 1:38.8 | Hi. |
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