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Tue 12 Dec 2008It's too early to choose a career path at just 18
BRIAN MOONEY'S ADVICE CENTRE:Why do so many young people get their choice of third-level courses wrong?With over 30 per cent of first-year entrants to third-level colleges throughout the OECD failing to complete the programme they initially register for, one has to ask the question: "Why do so many college applicants get their college choice so wrong".
The main reason for such large drop-out rates, lies, in my view, in society's expectation that higher and further education will be undertaken primarily by those aged between 18 and 25. This expectation puts huge pressure on young people to make academic choices that many are not ready to take.
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