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    DiVersity: Instead of University
    DiVersity: Instead of University
    DiVersity: Instead of University
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    DiVersity: Instead of University

    By Anthony Withers

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    DiVersity provides a simple, worthwhile, and debt-free alternative to university. It does a better job in preparing you for real life and helping you become the best possible version of yourself. You will explore and develop your interests, talents and innate genius and you will learn to use and coordinate the 'perfect storm' of resources at your fingertips, all as part of a world-wide community of kindred spirits.
    It is for you, if:
    - you are thinking about going to university
    - you are already at university and considering a sabbatical or a strategic withdrawal
    - you are planning or enjoying a gap year before university
    - you are at school, in any year
    - you cannot possibly go to university for academic or other reasons
    - you are doing Workaway or something similar
    - you are not sure of your next step, whatever your age
    - you feel stuck in the system and cannot see an alternative
    Guided by your heart, fuelled by your curiosity, integrated by meditation.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCharles Mackay
    Release dateDec 12, 2018
    ISBN9780463894316
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      Book preview

      DiVersity - Anthony Withers

      Contents

      Who is DiVersity for?

      How does it work?

      FAQs

      Pre-DiVersity – Instead of School

      Resources

      Extract from Instead

      Howard Gardner

      George Monbiot

      About the author

      DiVersity – The Concept

      Instead of university

      DiVersity provides a simple, worthwhile, and debt-free alternative to university. It does a better job in preparing you for real life and helping you become the best possible version of yourself. You will explore and develop your interests, talents and innate genius and you will learn to use and coordinate the 'perfect storm' of resources at your fingertips, all as part of a world-wide community of kindred spirits.

      Guided by your heart, fuelled by your curiosity, integrated by meditation.

      Back to Contents

      Who is it for?

      It is for you, if:

      - you are thinking about going to university

      - you are already at university and considering a sabbatical or a strategic withdrawal

      - you are planning or enjoying a gap year before university

      - you are at school, in any year

      - you cannot possibly go to university for academic or other reasons

      - you are doing Workaway or something similar

      - you are not sure of your next step, whatever your age

      - you feel stuck in the system and cannot see an alternative

      What are all the strange words?

      We are not sure what words to use for this new concept!

      ‘DiVersity’ itself we feel is so clear as an alternative to ‘uni-versity’ that it is worth the occasional possible ambiguity with other uses of the word.

      People ‘doing DiVersity’ or ‘DiVersifying’ could be called ‘DiVersants’ (with a nod to Veronica Roth) or ‘DiVersity travelling students’.

      ‘DSwap hosts’ are those families who welcome DiVersants because their own children are doing DiVersity.

      Back to Contents

      How does DiVersity work?

      As a person doing DiVersity you spend the time you choose, either at home, elsewhere in your home country, or abroad, building a Dossier, possibly with the same rhythm of terms and holidays as university, but totally under your control.

      The Dossier

      The Dossier you build replaces a conventional degree. It contains whatever you have chosen to put into it. Nothing is excluded and nothing is compulsory. It could consist of an in-depth study of a single subject (to way beyond current degree level) or it could contain a hundred different elements - with or without a theme. You can add to the Dossier elements previously worked on or acquired. For more details, see below.

      Your Dossier does not have to satisfy anyone except yourself. At the end of your time as a DiVersant your Dossier could be used as a credential to join a group or organisation, but it is more likely to have helped you to find a life activity, or a series of life activities, that satisfies you.

      Not for everybody

      It is clear that if you wish to become a doctor or an engineer, for example, DiVersity is not for you - although it could fill a gap or sabbatical year. Other contra-indicated groups are listed below.

      Age limit

      There is no upper or lower limit for starting DiVersity although you may be restricted by the school leaving age in your country.

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