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S3E1: Sarah-Jayne Blakemore - The GCSE is misaligned with adolescent brain development

Rethinking Education

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Psychology Degrees

Harry recently read a book about psychology and he was really his interest was really peeped by it. He's thinking of the swapping it in for one of his other subjects. But I like what you just said that if he knows that he wants to do that at a degree level, then that does free him up to explore other stuff. It is worth remembering that these psychology degrees are a science. You will start in the first year having to do huge amounts of maths - statistics courses take up a lot of the first year. Sometimes I worry that the fact that you don't have to do sciences gives the rocks of misleading impression that psychology isn't a science.

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