Employers and universities value history very highly

The skills that are taught within the subject are very useful in work, study and life.
Universities RESPECT an A Level in History

What work-related skills can history give me?
History can help you be...
AN INDEPENDENT THINKER
OPEN-MINDED
GOOD AT PROBLEM SOLVING
ABLE TO PICK OUT THE ESSENTIAL FROM THE TRIVIAL
History can also help you to...
Understand how and why humans behaved as they did – and may behave in similar circumstances again. This can be vital in relations with the most complex factor in any job – your colleagues!

Learn the arts of oral debate and expressing a clear personal point of view – invaluable skills at job or university interviews.

The highly respected ‘Which?’ consumer guides wrote the following in their ‘Which Subject, Which Career? Book 2002’

The following people all studied History at university

Dermot Murnaghan, BBC Breakfast TV presenter (Sussex); Jeremy Bowen, BBC News reporter (UCL); John Inverdale BBC Grandstand presenter (Southampton); Melvyn Bragg ITV presenter, South Bank Show (Oxford); Salman Rushdie author (Cambridge); Andrew Morton Diana biographer (Sussex). Lord John Sainsbury CEO Sainsbury’s (Oxford); Martha Lane-Fox Founder of Lastminute.com (Oxford); Anita Roddick, founder of Body Shop (Bath Spa); Louis Theroux (Oxford); Simon Thomas Blue Peter (Birmingham); Simon Mayo Radio DJ (Warwick); Michael Palin presenter and Python (Oxford); Chris Martin of band Coldplay (UCL); The Chemical Brothers DJs and dance music band (Manchester); Nicky Wire Manic Street Preachers (Swansea); Neil Tennant Pet Shop Boys (N London); Sting former History Teacher! Sacha Baron Cohen creator of Ali G & Borat- studied History at Cambridge. Gordon Brown Prime Minister Neil Kinnock former leader, Labour Party (Cardiff); John Prescott MP former Deputy Prime Minister (Hull); Diane Abbott MP first black woman MP, (Cambridge); Mike Mansfield QC top barrister (Keele);

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