Other useful 'A' levels for Journalism might include Media Studies, Politics, History, Philosophy, etc.
You wouldn't normally have to retake a year you'd passed in those circumstances.
Fees in England are £9,000 per year in most institutions, a bit less in a some. You start paying after you graduate, once your income reaches a threshhold (I think about £21pa), after which you pay 9% on any income over that. Since your debt is of course racking up interest all the while, for many people it amounts to an extra 9% income tax through most of their working life.
Most sixth formers, especially at state schools, do 3 A levels but it's perfectly possible to do more and that isn't uncommon, especially at fee paying schools.
Everyone applies to university through UCAS. You can check out their website and it should give you lots of info on finance and applications etc - http://www.ucas.com/
These days kids may do AS levels, which are kind of like half an A level, as well as A levels; so they may do two or three A levels and an addition couple of AS levels, which means they can study four or five subjects.
These days everyone has to pay university fees, but most people finance them through student loans, which you then pay back once you've graduated, but only, as you say, once you pass a specific threshold for earnings; if you continue in education, you go abroad, or you don't earn enough, you can defer repayment.
In terms of your last question, a lot of people don't follow the route of a vocational degree and then a career exactly matching their degree. If you want your character's degree to be relevant, I'd say possibly business studies, or English, or psychology, or media studies, but it's just as possible that he did modern languages or geography, or indeed that he hasn't done a degree at all.
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Other useful 'A' levels for Journalism might include Media Studies, Politics, History, Philosophy, etc.
You wouldn't normally have to retake a year you'd passed in those circumstances.
Fees in England are £9,000 per year in most institutions, a bit less in a some. You start paying after you graduate, once your income reaches a threshhold (I think about £21pa), after which you pay 9% on any income over that. Since your debt is of course racking up interest all the while, for many people it amounts to an extra 9% income tax through most of their working life.
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Also this page gives the entry requirements for the course you are talking about - https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/journalism/undergraduate/entry
Different courses require different grades etc. the standard is usually three a levels but more isn't going to hurt, this is a helpful page too - https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/journalism/undergraduate/faqs
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These days everyone has to pay university fees, but most people finance them through student loans, which you then pay back once you've graduated, but only, as you say, once you pass a specific threshold for earnings; if you continue in education, you go abroad, or you don't earn enough, you can defer repayment.
In terms of your last question, a lot of people don't follow the route of a vocational degree and then a career exactly matching their degree. If you want your character's degree to be relevant, I'd say possibly business studies, or English, or psychology, or media studies, but it's just as possible that he did modern languages or geography, or indeed that he hasn't done a degree at all.
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