Is anyone here from the UK?

[Boasorte]

Hi if so, I was wondering to all u lovely UK ladies, if there is an equivelant to the USA G.E.D program in England?
I was wondering about someone who dropped out of high school/secondary school and wants to go to college, but can't without a diploma. What are the options?

*BTW I am asking for a friend of mine who lives in Milton Keynes*

 

[RedRibbon]

In the UK you have to do GCSE's and then you can go on to doing A Levels, GNVQs or BTech.

We have school, college/sixth form, and then university. If you don't get the higher grades at GCSE level you can go on to do the latter two which I mentioned above. If you get higher grades you can still do these but you'd usually do the A Levels.

Your friend could go to college and do some GCSE's and then decide what she/he wishes to do afterwards.

 

[Boasorte]

I'm going to have look look up what all that means^^LOL
I'm really trying to help him out and get him all the help he needs, but I'm super ignorant on the English education, and I wa told he can't get a VISA to come here without a highschool diploma ( Which I am ignorant of again, since I'm a citizen lol)

Edit again : Is the Open Univeristy official?

 

[Blushbaby]

I think you can go to uni in the UK by completing a NVQ course in Levels 2 & 3. As Redribbon said you'd still need GCSE's in at least Maths and English in order to move onto any higher quals.

The Open University is a recognised institution, usually favoured by the mature student who has other commitments i.e a full time job.

 

[RedRibbon]

You can indeed go to uni with GNVQs and BTechs but the better unis are quite picky, e.g. UCL, Oxford, Cambridge etc..

 

[Boasorte]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Blushbaby I think you can go to uni in the UK by completing a NVQ course in Levels 2 & 3. As Redribbon said you'd still need GCSE's in at least Maths and English in order to move onto any higher quals. The Open University is a recognised institution, usually favoured by the mature student who has other commitments i.e a full time job.

yes he is working full time, so from what you and red ribbion are saying,
he can't go on to college/uni without GCSE's right? that is including Open University?

 

[RedRibbon]

Yep, I think it includes Open University. I don't know anyone who has done an OU course so I can't say for sure.

He could do a course at night college or something, or part time distance learning.

As he will need GCSE's, he can enrol at college to do them as that's the only place mature/people from abroad who aren't in the schooling system can do them.

 

[Boasorte]

thanks u 2 ladies for helping me out! I feel like a dummy, because this whole time I am doing research for my friend, and he is just now telling me 5 minutes ago that he didn't drop out of high school, he dropped out of college!!!!! >_<