I think if you have a fair idea of what you want to study at university right before your GCSEs (I personally didn't) then you know what subjects to take, it's not rocket science (so to speak) and the universities normally show their preferred subjects on the online prospectuses. But personally I wasn't very well informed, so I can see why it's good that unis publish this. Many people don't want to take a hard subject right after GCSEs, I'd probably have failed!
IMO there is an awfully bad attempt made by some schools to get students thinking about this. Personally my careers advisor was absolutely horrific and advised me against what I really wanted to do, and hadn't a clue of how I could start doing it, and if you said ''well I guess I like maths'' (many people can say this, or any subject for that matter) he would simply say ''cool, well do maths at uni then!''
retard...
The irony is taking career advice from someone who hasn't got one. Labour's shambles of a government thought just ship anyone off to university would solve all our generation's problems, what did they do? Just reduced the quality of a typical Bachelor's. Mickey Mouse courses which are nowhere parallel with the real world, and many people haev no chance of getting into their preferred industry/trade.
It's now a business for universities to attract students leading them to think they can actually get a job in the media, music, <insert topic> industry.
It's REALLY high if 40% get a job in their preffered industry these days for these types of subjects.