Life After Stowe
The Careers Department at Stowe prepares Stoics for life beyond the School gates. Career decisions and university courses can be daunting and from their early years in the School, pupils are helped to make the right choice. Our progressional approach, from Third Form to Upper Sixth Form, takes Stoics step by step through the process. Emphasis is placed on developing a positive attitude and motivation, raising ambitions, ensuring knowledge and awareness of opportunities in the global workplace.
Over 98% of Stoics take up a Higher Education course. Many Stoics go to the nationally popular universities such as Edinburgh, Newcastle, Durham, Warwick, University College London, Imperial and LSE and of course we are proud of our Oxbridge candidates who succeed in an ever increasingly competitive environment. The range chosen is predictable. What should also be predictable is that Stoics, being a very diverse group of people looking for something to suit their very particular skills and ambitions, will disperse themselves across a wide spectrum of vocational and combined courses at both 'old' and 'new' universities, and at specialist colleges. The last of these cater for a number of our very talented actors, artists, musicians and designers. Management is a popular subject nationally and suits many Stoics aiming to continue the school's tradition in producing people with the drive to succeed in business.
It is indeed difficult to generalise about trends when here at Stowe the popularity of sports science/coaching courses is balanced by the numbers who go off to read courses in classical civilisation, languages and the ancient world.
The School is proud of the many boys and girls who distinguish themselves in tertiary education. We receive a stream of news of former pupils achieving firsts and upper seconds from their universities and colleges.
We firmly believe an education at Stowe is a preparation for life. While at Stowe we encourage Stoics to think deeply, think for themselves and think about others, a philosophy we hope they will carry with them for the rest of their lives.