The brightest and most gifted pupils are shunning university and questioning its value, according to the head teacher of an independent school.
Tim Firth, head of Wrekin College in Shropshire, said university was no longer an automatic choice for high-achieving teenagers and that he did not consider it the ultimate path to success.
Fiona Scott Lazareff... Mother of a 22 year old son Nicholas Lazareff froze to death in the suburbs of Moscow after being pushed out of a car after his drink had been spiked.. Fiona Scott Lazareff is launching a campaign to help parents whose children go missing abroad.. Photographed at home in SW London.. ý photograph by David Sandison www.dsandison.com +44 7710 576 445 +44 208 979 6745 Nicolas Lazareff
TIMES NEWSPAPERS LTD
Fiona Scott Lazareff... Mother of a 22 year old son Nicholas Lazareff froze to death in the suburbs of Moscow after being pushed out of a car after his drink had been spiked.. Fiona Scott Lazareff is launching a campaign to help parents whose children go missing abroad.. Photographed at home in SW London.. ý photograph by David Sandison www.dsandison.com +44 7710 576 445 +44 208 979 6745 Nicolas Lazareff
TIMES NEWSPAPERS LTD
Today’s generation needed instead to be exposed to the world of work, to toughen them up and make them more resilient as employees, he said.
The day and boarding school has opened a new £1 million business school, including a boardroom, breakout collaboration areas, workplace-style “hot desks” and lecture theatres.
Local businesses, as well as students, will be able to use the facilities. Companies will hold seminars and breakfast events, and host
