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London’s New Year’s Day Parade yesterday had a “Swinging ’60s” so included a few bits like this:

Also spotted this ad for Brixton’s New Year’s Day Parade (Brixton is an area in London):

^^^ Join the club Emily, I detest school now, I want the next year and a 1/2 to be over as soon as possible.

The simplest way to explain is that colleges deal with further education and vocational courses, while universities offer higher education (degree level courses). There is a lap-over between schools and colleges, with both schools (though not all) and colleges catering for the courses needed to gain university admission. The main difference being the student body, as you wouldn’t find anybody (or very rarely) below the age of sixteen attending college. You will often find more mature students attending colleges as well, as they return to education, and they are also often centres for evening classes.

Education has changed a great deal since The Beatles youth’, with the pivotal change coming in 1965 with the introduction of comprehensive education and the abolition of (most) grammar schools (for which you needed to pass an exam known as the 11+ to gain entry, at the age of 10/11). This system was felt to abandon those who didn’t pass.

Since Margaret Thatcher started the process in the ’80s however, state education has been constantly reformed with schools given various different names (Academies, Free Schools, yadayadayada), and exam systems constantly questioned and reformed in various ways, with a new set of exams due to replace our current ones in a couple of years or so.

It is also now far more common for students to take a “gap year” between ending school/further education and beginning university.

Ahhh Girl said

@Hey Jude ! said

Only a very few days are left for 2014 to live, hopefully they will be peaceful. Have we got any wish list thread for 2015 ?

Hey Jude said this in the Impossible to Derail thread. I figured I would x-post his comment and question to this thread in case anyone wants to read through this thread and/or make their 2015 wishes here. Either thread will be fine. I hope that is okay Hey Jude .

Hopefully I will be sound asleep when it reaches midnight where I am. Maybe @trcanberra will be online when it is midnight at his house. That will be 9 am where I am. Or maybe our England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland people will be on at midnight their time. That will be 6 pm my time. I can celebrate the New Year that way.

My 2015 wish is for everything to go as smoothly as possible and as wonderfully as possible for my trip with @HeyTrud to London and Liverpool.

I may well be, though I’ll try to keep the humbug to myself

Ahhh Girl said

@Hey Jude ! said

Only a very few days are left for 2014 to live, hopefully they will be peaceful. Have we got any wish list thread for 2015 ?

Hey Jude said this in the Impossible to Derail thread. I figured I would x-post his comment and question to this thread in case anyone wants to read through this thread and/or make their 2015 wishes here. Either thread will be fine. I hope that is okay Hey Jude .

Hopefully I will be sound asleep when it reaches midnight where I am. Maybe @trcanberra will be online when it is midnight at his house. That will be 9 am where I am. Or maybe our England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland people will be on at midnight their time. That will be 6 pm my time. I can celebrate the New Year that way.

My 2015 wish is for everything to go as smoothly as possible and as wonderfully as possible for my trip with @HeyTrud to London and Liverpool.

You can call us British islanders that way nobody gets insulted  

Off-topic: I met a Swedish lad in France before who refused to believe the Republic of Ireland was an independent country and that we weren’t a part of the UK. I will not take offense if you make the mistake once but he kept on saying how I was “British” and that “Irish is a made up language”- pissed me off to no end. We’ll just excuse my fellow countrymen and women who fought and died for Ireland’s freedom then alright, yep they did give their lives in vain. You wouldn’t call Indians, Americans, or Australians, British so why us? Just because we’re neighboring countries doesn’t mean we’re any different!

I imagine it’s the same for Scots, Welsh and Northern Irish who are called “English”.  

Rant over.

Back on topic: Me, being the way I am will mostly likely not end up going out on New Years (I honestly would be worried if I did, I assume so would my parents). I’ll probably end up watching Home Alone or something and listening to “Ding, Dong, Ding, Dong” on repeat.