Citizen Odai Quaye has published another guest post at Employment Autism, looking at the requirement of many British employers to have a maths qualification for most roles.
I’ve done all that is requested in order to show that I have a life outside of education: I have work and volunteering experience. I have undertaken a work programme through the NAS and completed an online course in understanding autism and reached out to other services. These days it feels like they benefit me only in the sense that if somebody asks me “have you tried ‘x’ ” I can say “I’ve done that”, which doesn’t amount to much.
You know what Adele, Simon Cowell and Richard Branson all have in common? None of them have a maths qualification – one’s a world conquering singer, one’s a respected record executive and TV personality, the other is one half of the duo that founded the Virgin Group. I only feel uneasy about the last example because businesspeople like to downplay how they became successful and make it seem as if they made it without any help, which is far from the truth.
Read more at Employment Autism: https://employmentautism.org.uk/why-do-i-need-maths/