What is the point of education? This is the question one Oxford University student found himself asking in his recently self-published book. JP Ay is a 22-year-old Oxford University student at St Hilda’s College. He is in his fourth year of an integrated master’s degree in biochemistry and, until he turned 18, he went to a private boys school in London. Despite benefitting from a private education, Mr Ay now says there are life skills to be learned beyond an academia to prepare people for the real world . This year he wrote and published a book titled ‘What’s the Point of School: How the Current Education System is Failing to Prepare Students for the Real World’.