a levels

The A-levels you mention are all well-respected (apart from, perhaps, PE) but I don't think that they really lead into specific jobs. That isn't a bad thing, not many A-levels do, and most jobs would require training anyway after A-levels. Are you planning on going to uni?

I do latin A-level, and as my teacher regularly reminds me, classics, and the skills involved are highly valued in the workplace by employers.

Yeah. You could become a classics teacher.

Yeah. You could become a classics teacher.

The discussion is interesting, but I think the OP may be talking about Class. Civ. as opposed to the languages Latin and Greek. Apologies if I'm wrong though.

I have applied to do Classics at uni, it's at least as useful (or useless, depending on how you look at it) as any other Arts degree, and Classics grads go into a pretty wide variety of careers.

The discussion is interesting, but I think the OP may be talking about Class. Civ. as opposed to the languages Latin and Greek. Apologies if I'm wrong though.

I have applied to do Classics at uni, it's at least as useful (or useless, depending on how you look at it) as any other Arts degree, and Classics grads go into a pretty wide variety of careers.

And it's probably the easiest way of getting into Oxbridge

Really?

I still do have a great amount of respect for 'traditional academic' qualifications, this is a view shared by many people. However, in all honesty, the myth that employers drool over classics and history is....
well, those day's are now long gone. If you are ONLY looking at employment prospects (nothing else) classics at Oxford simply cannot compare with Accounting/Finance/Economics and the like. It's a trying time for the economy, probably not a good idea taking for granted that an overly academic degree (even at Oxbridge) is going to offer you a passport into highly paid jobs.

J.S.

I think History is a good way into the Civil Service. Though it is true that the civil service does not always pay well.

With the Civil service it doesn't particularly matter as to what you study, just as long as you can handle their (rather difficult) exams. Incidentally someone with numerical and lit. skills will be best positioned to be able to do so.

I have applied to do Classics at uni, it's at least as useful (or useless, depending on how you look at it) as any other Arts degree, and Classics grads go into a pretty wide variety of careers.

what kind of careers can u go into with a classics degree? i can only think of 2:
museum work
teaching

law (after conversion)
accountancy exams
civil service
middle management

basically and graduatejob/qualification.

Provided you can find one.

An absolutely crap list Lord Huntroyde

You might as well do a:

Law degree
Accountancy Degree
Management Degree

A Classics degree doesn't 'put' you into any career. Which may or may not be a good thing, depending on what your interests are and how sure you are of any possible careers you want to do. It does however show that you are an artisic, creative person who can write essays and is a good linguist.

Actually classics graduates are the most employable, with 94% of them having a job 6 months or less after leaving uni.