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Old October 4th 10, 12:24 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london
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Default Crossrail and Tube upgrades spared the axe - NCE

On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 12:38:00 +0100
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 09:46:47 on Mon, 4 Oct
2010, d remarked:
Round here, most of the 6th Form Colleges get better A-Level results
than the schools.


I'd call a kid who goes to 6th form college a pupil, not a student.


Then you are out of step with much of society. Like the NUS, who sign up
6th-formers these days.


The NUS are and always have been a joke. Only the people running it who all
seem to believe they're a future prime minister in waiting don't realise that.

If I hadn't spent a "gappy kind of year" doing my Cambridge scholarship
exams, I could easily have gone to university aged 17 and a quarter.


I took a gap year and got a job to earn money to go to university. Unlike the
trustafarians who bum around foreign climbs with daddies gold card patronising
the locals.

B2003