{"id":349009,"date":"2025-08-16T11:23:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T11:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/349009\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T11:23:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T11:23:15","slug":"is-university-right-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/349009\/","title":{"rendered":"Is university right for me?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sm-text__text\">Thousands of young people opened A-level, T-level, and other results this summer, including Sam Scoble and Halima Surakat, who both got the grades they needed to secure a place at uni. <\/p>\n<p>But with so much to consider around finances, friends, family expectations and job prospects, deciding whether university is actually the right choice &#8211; or not \u2013 was a tricky decision. <\/p>\n<p>Here, Sam makes his case for turning down the University of Oxford, while Halima argues that university will be a welcomed step out of her comfort zone \u2013 even though it wasn\u2019t the original plan. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thousands of young people opened A-level, T-level, and other results this summer, including Sam Scoble and Halima Surakat,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3937],"tags":[77,382,16,15,21994,21995,21993],"class_list":{"0":"post-349009","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-visual-journalism","13":"tag-visualjournalism","14":"tag-vj"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}