Monthly Archives: January 2017
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A Go Higher Student’s Personal Story by Dominic Henry
January 19, 2017
Access to Higher Education, Mature learners, Student Experience, Student Stories, Widening Participation

I’ll start with some information about me. In school I made the same cocky mistakes a lot of teens do; i.e. I decided there was no point going to school because, well, what could they possibly teach me that I didn’t already know? So, I spent all of 3 hours a day there before deciding that that was enough. As you can imagine my exams didn’t go great, in fact I failed them all. But that was okay as I started working in a hairdresser’s a week after I finished school and was going to college to train as a stylist. I did this and qualified as planned – but that’s when life hit me full time.