Higher Education

Ok. If you’re an academic, and Higher Education and formal learning is the pinnacle of all knowledge and wonderment, then this may be mildly insulting (er… apologies for that…). However, the thing I’m most grateful to my University for is that it allowed me to reinvent myself (in a few different ways). Growing up in a small town in Northern Ireland, my University years were very formative and thoroughly helpful at a time when I was deciding who I was going to be. As a friend pointed out though – in the UK it’s become a very expensive way of reinventing yourself…