Calls to UCAS have dropped by a third since 2019, indicating many teenagers struggle with making phone calls. Schools have introduced mock phone interviews to give students practice and confidence. One school course also taught holding university interviews, managing student loans, advocating as tenants, and cooking healthy meals. The programme offers a sensible response to a growing trend and prepares students for practical responsibilities. Phone-call workshops can reduce stress during the post-A-Level application period and refresh basic verbal communication skills.
Speaking to The Times, Saxton explained that calls to UCAS have dropped by a third since 2019. "That is how difficult teenagers these days can find how to make a phone call," she told the publication. It seems quite practical to run mock phone interviews with them, then. In the same Times article, James Johnstone, head teacher at Bacup & Rawtenstall Grammar School, said the phone call course his school devised also taught students how to hold a university interview, manage student loans, advocate for their rights as tenants, and cook healthy meals.
In that light, the programme seems like what that same writer eventually concedes it is: a sensible way to manage what she admits is a growing trend, and a good way to prepare students for that dreaded "real world" generally. So why not make part of what is an often-stressful time for any young person (this, after all, is training to secure post-A-Level courses) a little easier and admit that, honestly, most of us could stand a refresher on how to talk to one another a little better?
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