[Sussex] IT qualifications advice

[Mark Harrison]

Alan,

Geoff Teale has given excellent advice.

If you are intending to go to university, then (assuming you pass your
degree), employers are unlikely to care which A-levels you took.

I would advise you to go for subjects that you'll enjoy... and leaning
towards subjects that are "traditional" in nature is unlikely to do any
harm.

My A-level choices were "classic" in nature - Maths, Further Maths, Physics,
Geography... this enabled me to go on to Bachelor and Masters degrees in
Mathematics and Computation. (Although I can't officially claim my Masters
until I actually turn up at a degree ceremony... which I really ought to
do.)

When I was choosing my A-levels, I wasn't particularly intending to go into
IT as a career. I'd actually intended to read Maths at University, but was
seduced onto the joint course at an open day...

Regards,

Mark

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan J Fitton" <alan at loonix.net>
To: "LUG email list for the Sussex Counties" <sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Friday, November 28, 2003 10:53 PM
Subject: [Sussex] IT qualifications advice


> Well, as an experienced bunch in the IT field, I was wondering if anyone
> could give me some good advice on the subject of what qualifications are
> actually useful for real life IT work.
>
> Sometime this week, I'll have to make my final choice of what I do for my
> A levels. Right now, it's really a choice of whether I go to my schools
> 6th form, or Chichester college. I'm leaning more towards the former for
> quite a few reasons. Maths, buisness studies, chemistry, english are some
> of the subjects I'm interested in (I choose 4 A levels, drop one at the
> end of next year).