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1 If graduate careers don’t interest you, you can apply for a ‘sandwich artist’ apprenticeship in the UK. Or how about a vocational qualification as a circus performer in Australia?
2 In 2016, 3,000 prospective medical students had to retake their university entrance exams after four exam candidates were caught using smart watches and cameras to cheat.
3 Competition for places at the University of Cambridge is fierce. More than half of rejected candidates go on to receive A grades for all their final school exams.
4 Worried about tuition fees and student debt? Being a Star Trek fan can get you a college scholarship of up to $1000 from an organization called Starfleet.
5 It may not be a degree, but you can get a qualification called the Pirate Certificate from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
6 There’s a small college in Oregon with its own nuclear reactor, run by undergraduate students.
7 Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of university to focus on building the social-networking website Facebook.
8 The longest lecture took place in India over more than 139 hours, from 1 to 7 March 2014. The topic was scientific computations.
9 Bill Gates is a Harvard Law School graduate.
Read the fact file about further education and:
- Identify which statement is NOT true.
- Which do you find most surprising? Why?