[HPforGrownups] Re: British Muggle/Wizarding schooling WAS Graduation

[Kathryn Cawte]

No: HPFGUIDX 53818

Pip wrote -
So it would be strange if the WW did not have a similar system of 
job based exams and qualifications (Snape might be a Chartered 
Apothecary, for example).
 
The other point to consider is that the British WW is quite simply 
too *small* to support a University. 1000 students (JKR's estimate 
of the size of Hogwarts) equals 143 students per year. If 50% decide 
to go on to University, and it's a 3 year English style course, then 
that's only 214 undergraduates TOTAL.
 
214 people is an awfully small college. Generally, only specialist 
schools can afford to be that small. Individual research and 
training would actually make a *lot* more sense.
 
Me -

I certainly think there has to be some post-Hogwarts training for
professions such as potions making and nursing, and since the world seems to
be medieval/renaissance in many respects I think a system similar to
medieval guilds would be most likely. But what about for things like
teaching. I can't see a school hiring someone to teach (for example)
Transfigurations up to NEWT standard if their highest qualification was a
NEWT. It just doesn't make sense.

I knw JKR has said there isn't a university and I agree there aren't enough
pupils to support one. But there would be enough to support a college at
Oxford or Cambridge (or St Andrews or any other collegiate university for
that matter, but only one) and since they were both founded (I believe)
before the wizarding world split from the muggle one then it would fit. Plus
some of them tend to be very old fashioned and traditional so I doubt it
would even look out of place.

And I know if there was such a college it would contradict JKR's statement
(and it's her world so she should know), but I feel there is a need for
something.

K