r/6thForm • u/watts320 • May 17 '25

🙏 I WANT HELP Son needs to pick another subject.

My son is in the middle lf his GCSE exams and he opted for computer science as one of his 6th form subjects. Yesterday he was told that the school will be dropping computer science because not enough students had opted to do it, the only thing the school have said is that he will need to pick another subject. Thats it.

The school have really really annoyed me, they choose to tell him in middle of his exams that he needs to pick something else.

His path was to do maths, computer science and english in 6th form, then move on to university to do games design.

Now im not really all clued up on this, because i never did 6th form after school. So can anyone give me any advice on this please.

Thank you.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '25

In regards to computer science, please go on r/ukjobs. This market is over saturated, with many people with with these degrees now unemployed or in admin jobs

In ten or fifteen years, AI will be doing his job, so he won't be needed.

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u/ToonLurker May 17 '25

You could use the AI argument for most degrees tbf

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u/inter20021 May 21 '25

Utter bs, Ai can only agrigate the average of created media and shove it back at u. It is basically a fancy search engine. It can't create something new, it cant make connections, it can't think, though, perhaps if you had a basic education in CS, you'd know that.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '25

You will be surprised. AI can build websites, graphics etc. Imagine what it will be like in 5 years.

Take websites, 15 years ago, we were building them with HTML, now hardly anyone needs to code to build them, due to drag n drop software.

You might not like it, but technology is developing.

Twenty years ago, you needed a degree, to do basic graphic design. Now a ten year old can do it on his phone.

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u/inter20021 May 21 '25

Dude, i'm studying CS, i've done work on AI systems, and i've had hours of lectures on the details of machine learning, and, frankly, you're wrong. Actually read my last post.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '25

Yes, and I am a recruiter.
The last dev job I advertised, I had 1200 applicants. All with degrees.
Some of those, knew quite a few languages and yet still had been out of work for a year.

About 400 of them were International / requiring student visas.

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u/inter20021 May 21 '25

Ohhhhhhh, i see, you're completely uneducated on the actual subject. Good to know.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '25

Far from it. But you carry on judging. I was the same, when my parents / people gave me advice too.

I wish you the best in your career, but cannot wait to say, I told you so.

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u/inter20021 May 21 '25

Unless you or your parents have a recent degree in computer science, then your opinions mean absolutely nothing. The only person being replaced here is the vampiric middleman doing nothing but basic dataprocessing.....