Alternatively, given my undergraduate degree, I could have applied for a highly competitive place on a fast-track course, aimed to train the best graduates in one year with the added bonus of a salary while training.
How to do it: Get qualified: Flying Fish (0871 250 2500; flyingfishonline.com) offers a fast-track course for intermediate windsurfers, based at Club Vass in Lefkas, Greece, for £2,310 including accommodation, tuition, exam fees and equipment.
Laboratoria is a social enterprise giving young women in Peru a five-month fast-track course in coding, readying them for a job in the country's burgeoning tech sector where demand for their skills exceeds supply but fewer than 10% of professionals are women.
After doing a little digging and discovering the National Council for the Training of Journalists offered fast-track courses for free to under-19s, I resolved to forget about university and take this more vocational route.
The age of the traditional three-year degree could come to an end after universities were ordered yesterday to devise two-year fast-track courses to cut the cost of higher education to students and the public purse.
We must give students a financial reason to choose engineering at university - that means more scholarships, more fast-track courses and guaranteed work placements.
Despite the publicity they have generated, the emergence of fast-track training courses like Step Up to Social Work, Frontline and Think Ahead also provide meagre reassurance when the bigger picture is so worrying.
Mr. Edlefsen, a former soloist with the Pennsylvania and Stuttgart Ballets, was one of 100 new sales agents at Weichert Realty enrolled in "Fast Tracks," a one of several training courses at the company's 20-acre campus in Morris Plains, N.J.
She covered all possible fast tracks.
We are fast tracking and thinking ahead".
"Some of those were fast tracked.
