iPad for 6th Form?

That question is probably best answered by someone at your college. Could depend on a lot of factors. Generally speaking, you should be able to for most tasks, I would think.

Contact the school and ask them what the software and computer requirements are. Personnally, I could not imagine going through four or more years of university with only an iPad to run complex engineering models, equations, and typing engineering papers. Not to mention the hours of research.

>>>> Personnally, I could not imagine going through four or more years of university with only an iPad to run complex engineering models, equations, and typing engineering papers. Not to mention the hours of research.

I agree, but I'm old and still sometime struggle with the on screen keyboard for more than simple typing.

Hi,

We went through this last year when my son went to Sixth Form. It's probably not what you want to hear but in the end we decided that you could use the iPad at a push but in all honesty a laptop is a better proposition.

Factors which helped us decide?

No network connection on the iPad - wifi at the college was decidely flaky in places

Touch screen keyboard just not up to it for long essays (you could of course get a key-case but that's sort of turning it into a laptop anyway..)

Access to the file system is just too locked-down - no swapping files from mates' USB drives or logging onto the college system and downloading papers.

No MS Office (that may change in the future though).

Too fragile (and expensive!) for lumping around at college.

He badly wanted an iPad but having seen others try (and struggle) to use them for any serious work at Sixth form even he concedes that they're not up to it... yet.

Edit: I forgot the biggy - printing from your iPad whilst on campus is likely not to work.