In message
-septem
ber.org, at 17:26:14 on Tue, 14 Apr 2015, Clank
remarked:
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 05:42:48
on Tue, 14 Apr 2015, remarked:
Ah - were students going off to uni at a younger age then? The
standard entry these days is 18 or higher.
Some were, especially a few mathematicians. Child protection issues have
largely stopped unis from accepting under-18s.
I wonder if there's also an issue with minors signing up for student
loans.
I doubt that. Parents have to stand behind their student children, even over
18. So that is easy to fix. It's modern paranoia about child protection
that's scaring off universities that's much harder to handle.
Why is it more difficult than schools (boarding schools if you like).
It seems like child protection is somewhat unavoidable for schools. On the
other hand is a university going to want to Enhanced-CRB check its entire
staff (including every student who volunteers to help in a tutorial or
similar)
Whatever the check is (I think Enhanced CRB is an old one) there are
certainly checks like that done on Uni students who are volunteers. And
apparently are still not transferable, and have to be done over and over
again for every few hours volunteering.
--
Roland Perry