Sheffield Hallam 1999-2002 2:2 BA (Hons) Social work Studies
Would have liked to have got a better result, but didn't care in the last year about grades. had my second daughter, moved to a new big house and was working 3 nights a week in term time to pay the mortgage. lets face it with 1000's social work posts empty you'd have to be really crap to be out of work!
Oh I'm jealous. I had a DE offer for Reading's Food Science BSc, but had to turn it down as I was diagnosed with a skin condition during my A-Levels that meant I'd be unlikely to get a food hygiene certificate. (On the plus side, if I'm ever long term unemployed, the job centre can't make me work in MacDonalds)
Not telling you where I went (social engineer's wet dream!) but I got a 2:1 in Geology then an MSc in Palaeontology from 92-96. This could be an interesting thread - I bet there are some Lifers out there with more obscure degrees than that!
Behavioural Science- BSc - 1988-92.
Ended up with a 'gentleman's third' after
1) being jetlagged for one of the exams- (long story)
2) having a dispute with one of the tutors. Some research & ideas I had worked on strangely ended up becoming her idea and research.
I wouldn't let it lie.
I then left Cardiff and from 1993-4 I did a Post Grad in Education at the dreaming spires of Nene Collage Northampton.
It's probably a uni now!
Croydon college of art and design 1970-1974: MSIAD.3 Dip art and design, Foundation diploma 1 year.
Coloma Teacher training college ( University of London) postgraduate certicate in teaching 1974.
Turned down a MA course at the Royal college of art, as I could not get a full grant even in those days, which was fair enough as I had had a full grant for 5 years.
Must admit I would now not have been able to go to Art college/University these days due to my financial circumstances at the time. I personally feel this is incredably devisive, and although I feel that students should be on endless courses at the tax payers expense, the system that seems to discriminate against ability , because you have middle class parents who can pay for private tutoring and upporting your child through University/further education should be open to all, and based first on ability.
The desire/aspiration to have a quota of 50 percent of students going to Uni is great in principal, but wether this is the fairest system, and best for the country is somewhat debatable. Great that people want to go to Uni, and those who can afford will probably always find a way.
A right to me to a state sponsored free educaion, is the same as a right to a free health system, based on need, not ability to pay.
When the Labour goverment abondoned this principle, however 'flawed', however 'uneconomic' I stopped voting Labour.
Still feel that middle class, and public school educated people still get into the best Uni's and jobs.
[cite]Posted By: Friend Or Defoe[/cite]Lancaster University 2003-2007
2:1 Msci (Hons) Mathematics and Statistics.
Complete waste of time, wish I hadn't bothered.
You say that now, but believe me, a Maths degree is one of the best you can get - on account of it's f***ing hard to get. In a few years, you won't regret it, believe me.
University of Wales, Swansea 2001-2004
2:2 BSc Business Studies & Marketing
Cracking three years of my life and Swansea sometimes gets a bad press but I wouldnt change my choice for anywhere else. Made some cracking mates on my course and at uni. Having a football team reunion next year down there, people coming back from the US, Australia and Dartford...
Can't wait.
London Bridge Business Academy 2006-2008
Chartered Institute of Marketing - Professional Diploma
Funded by work but allowed me to go from WSS to WSS ACIM. Gotta love some letters. ;-)
[cite]Posted By: Leroy Ambrose[/cite]Not telling you where I went (social engineer's wet dream!) but I got a 2:1 in Geology then an MSc in Palaeontology from 92-96. This could be an interesting thread - I bet there are some Lifers out there with more obscure degrees than that!
Palaeontology? Are we talking fun with fossils or something much more dull? And how the hell did you end up in IT after that?
B Pharm. Hons 2:1 University of London 1982 I studied with Mrs Lat who has the brains and got a B Pharm 1st class honours declined a PhD and also had a place to do Medicine in 1982 which she also declined as she had always wanted to be a Boots Pharmacist! She no longer is, now Associate Director in a PCT but like all those employed by PCTs will lose her job in 2 years Max. Great time at Uni and wonderful lives since. If I hadnt gone to Uni would have joined the police force. Going to University 30+ years ago was not common offers were somewhat different, mine was DDD, now I would have needed AAB and wouldn't have got in!
[cite]Posted By: Leroy Ambrose[/cite]Not telling you where I went (social engineer's wet dream!) but I got a 2:1 in Geology then an MSc in Palaeontology from 92-96. This could be an interesting thread - I bet there are some Lifers out there with more obscure degrees than that!
Palaeontology? Are we talking fun with fossils or something much more dull? And how the hell did you end up in IT after that?
Hah. Always wanted to do it - ever since I was a kid. Unfortunately, by the time I'd matured, the prospect of spending ten months of every year in a dank, dark basement - with the other two on a windswept freezing cold beach or baked under the desert sun - didn't appeal. I moved into IT because I discovered I liked doing it - lucky enough to find something else in my life I enjoyed doing enouhg to want to make a career out of it after my 'first love' didn't pan out.
My masters was in the evolution and diversification of bivalves from the Ordovician through the Silurian and into the Devonian. Amazingly, even duller than it sounds.
University of Greenwich 1994-97 BA (Hons) Economics
Completed CIMA qualification whilst working at King's College London and Birkbeck College, University of London 2001-2005
Now working at Queen Mary, University of London since 2005. Currently doing the AUA (Association of University Administrators) Postgrad Diploma and have been offered a chance to do a MBA from next September.
So you could say I've spent more years at University than most ;-)
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2:2 BA (Hons) Social work Studies
Would have liked to have got a better result, but didn't care in the last year about grades. had my second daughter, moved to a new big house and was working 3 nights a week in term time to pay the mortgage. lets face it with 1000's social work posts empty you'd have to be really crap to be out of work!
NWK College 86 - 88 HNC. Mech & Prod Eng.
Erith College 88-91. Diploma in Ind Management.
Open University. 96 - 01. MSc Manufacturing.
Ended up with a 'gentleman's third' after
1) being jetlagged for one of the exams- (long story)
2) having a dispute with one of the tutors. Some research & ideas I had worked on strangely ended up becoming her idea and research.
I wouldn't let it lie.
I then left Cardiff and from 1993-4 I did a Post Grad in Education at the dreaming spires of Nene Collage Northampton.
It's probably a uni now!
Coloma Teacher training college ( University of London) postgraduate certicate in teaching 1974.
Turned down a MA course at the Royal college of art, as I could not get a full grant even in those days, which was fair enough as I had had a full grant for 5 years.
Must admit I would now not have been able to go to Art college/University these days due to my financial circumstances at the time.
I personally feel this is incredably devisive, and although I feel that students should be on endless courses at the tax payers expense, the system that seems to discriminate against ability , because you have middle class parents who can pay for private tutoring and upporting your child through University/further education should be open to all, and based first on ability.
The desire/aspiration to have a quota of 50 percent of students going to Uni is great in principal, but wether this is the fairest system, and best for the country is somewhat debatable.
Great that people want to go to Uni, and those who can afford will probably always find a way.
A right to me to a state sponsored free educaion, is the same as a right to a free health system, based on need, not ability to pay.
When the Labour goverment abondoned this principle, however 'flawed', however 'uneconomic' I stopped voting Labour.
Still feel that middle class, and public school educated people still get into the best Uni's and jobs.
2:2 BA (Hons) Media and Politics
2:1 Msci (Hons) Mathematics and Statistics.
Complete waste of time, wish I hadn't bothered.
University of Greenwich 99 PgDip Political Studies
Oh and I would have had the honour of producing, checking and stamping your certificate. If the seal is wonky - sorry.
King Edward VII Nautical College at Stepney for 1 year
Life at sea - now that was an education!
Foundation Certificate in Art and Design, Central Saint Martins. 1991.
BA(hons) 2:1 Fine Art, Newcastle. 1995.
BA (Hons) International Finance and Capital Market Studies - Desmond
Foundation Certificate in Art and Design, Central Saint Martins. 1991.
BA(hons) 2:1 Fine Art, Newcastle. 1995.
Why are you doing a Masters Valley, having done the PGCE, how does that work with teaching!..... just interested.
Birmingham University MBA (1999)
Later studies Psychology with the OU, BSc 2:1 (hons). Followed that up with post grad diplomas in Communications and Marketing.
2:2 BSc Business Studies & Marketing
Cracking three years of my life and Swansea sometimes gets a bad press but I wouldnt change my choice for anywhere else. Made some cracking mates on my course and at uni. Having a football team reunion next year down there, people coming back from the US, Australia and Dartford...
Can't wait.
London Bridge Business Academy 2006-2008
Chartered Institute of Marketing - Professional Diploma
Funded by work but allowed me to go from WSS to WSS ACIM. Gotta love some letters. ;-)
Never done me no harm, always worked (very hard) started at the bottom, but doing nicely now.
Best thing I ever did.
2:1 BSc(Hons) Resource and Applied Geology
My masters was in the evolution and diversification of bivalves from the Ordovician through the Silurian and into the Devonian. Amazingly, even duller than it sounds.
3rd Year of a Law Degree (LLB)
BA (Hons) Economics
Completed CIMA qualification whilst working at King's College London and Birkbeck College, University of London 2001-2005
Now working at Queen Mary, University of London since 2005.
Currently doing the AUA (Association of University Administrators) Postgrad Diploma and have been offered a chance to do a MBA from next September.
So you could say I've spent more years at University than most ;-)
Qualified as a Master Brewer in 1991
Travelled the world with Heineken and expecting to be back home in 2012