Muggle education question.
EDITED TO ADD: This is very helpful.
I am, indeed, speculating/imagining about Hermione's parents. (Of course! Who else?)
So if I wanted to present the Granger parents as academic generalists, as it were, but still follow a fairly standard British educational timeline, is there a more realistic way I could do that? I was positing a very American method, but if that would have been prohibitively expensive then I should like to find something a great deal more probable! Might they have taken a year off to wander Europe? I know I met a ton of Australians doing just this when I toured the UK in 1997. Do Brits do it as well?
Or perhaps they did an extra year of high school (is that what y'all even call it?) by being foreign exchange students elsewhere in Europe?
My goal is to have Hermione's primary role models be people who did not settle on a firm, narrow career path at 17 or 18, but instead both chose dentistry when they were slightly older, after they'd explored what academia had to offer. Perhaps this is simply not done in Britain, but it's practically expected in the USA, so I am hoping for a way to make it work for her parents!
Thank you!
Original question: I have a cousin who grew up in Switzerland and began medical school right after what we in the USA call "high school." I understand this is fairly standard practice all over the EU. However, I would imagine there have to be at least some British physicians and dentists who got a medical degree after they got an undergraduate/bachelor's degree in something else.
That's standard in the USA, one gets a bachelors (in anything one wishes, as long as one takes the prerequisite courses needed to attend medical or dental school) and only then, at about 22, does one head off to medical or dental school. And then that school experience takes 4 years for a physician and 3 to 4 years for a dentist.
So if a British person did a degree in say, History, or English literature, and only then applied to dental school, how long would that education take? Is it even available in the UK?
Many thanks for any help you have.
I am, indeed, speculating/imagining about Hermione's parents. (Of course! Who else?)
So if I wanted to present the Granger parents as academic generalists, as it were, but still follow a fairly standard British educational timeline, is there a more realistic way I could do that? I was positing a very American method, but if that would have been prohibitively expensive then I should like to find something a great deal more probable! Might they have taken a year off to wander Europe? I know I met a ton of Australians doing just this when I toured the UK in 1997. Do Brits do it as well?
Or perhaps they did an extra year of high school (is that what y'all even call it?) by being foreign exchange students elsewhere in Europe?
My goal is to have Hermione's primary role models be people who did not settle on a firm, narrow career path at 17 or 18, but instead both chose dentistry when they were slightly older, after they'd explored what academia had to offer. Perhaps this is simply not done in Britain, but it's practically expected in the USA, so I am hoping for a way to make it work for her parents!
Thank you!
Original question: I have a cousin who grew up in Switzerland and began medical school right after what we in the USA call "high school." I understand this is fairly standard practice all over the EU. However, I would imagine there have to be at least some British physicians and dentists who got a medical degree after they got an undergraduate/bachelor's degree in something else.
That's standard in the USA, one gets a bachelors (in anything one wishes, as long as one takes the prerequisite courses needed to attend medical or dental school) and only then, at about 22, does one head off to medical or dental school. And then that school experience takes 4 years for a physician and 3 to 4 years for a dentist.
So if a British person did a degree in say, History, or English literature, and only then applied to dental school, how long would that education take? Is it even available in the UK?
Many thanks for any help you have.