By: Barry Williams

Barry Williams
Mon, 28 Jul 2025 17:00:21 +0000

I was a 1960s grammar school boy, and duly sat O-level exams - 3 hours for each subject (10 of them). I bypassed A-levels and when I was a tad older I started an Open University degree, which took me 6 years part-time. Another 3-hour exam at the end of each year. I was also working full-time and had a wife and baby. What I had learned early on was time management skills - valuable at grammar school, and later for the OU. Perhaps young people these days don't have to do quite this amount of juggling?