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just asking this as a cross section of society that you lot undoubtly are....

I voted yes as I'm doing my masters at the moment. Tempting fate, sure.

Having seen the proposals to up tuition fees further, I'm glad I finished last year

so you have a degree Rich? fuck knows how you seymour with statements like the above

I have a degree yes. I'm quite a uni whore - I've got a HND from Bath, a BA (Hons) from Plymouth and am doing the MA up here in Newcastle.

Oh the debt :)

no, i am a retard

I do not. Could have got one but couldn't be arsed to finish college, let alone go to Uni.

yeah right!

I'm half way through a degree course with the Open University. Well worth checking their courses out if you want a degree and have some spare time each week to study. Though the costs can stack up, about £4k in total (6 courses at £700'ish each) but they do have a financial support scheme if you're on a low income and its free if your on benefits.

Nope. Had a place accepted at Southampton but fucked it off and got a job instead. No student debt FTW.

I do, a Desmond in Computer Science from Swansea.

Touch wood

Nope. Just an HND in graphic design.

I do .. I have a 2:1 BA (Hons) in English

I have alot of student debt - You have to watch what you say because many people that massive hatred towards students which I can sometimes understand.

I didn't get a bank loan for the masters degree, I'm paying that by saving which isn't fun but the Career Development Loan banks offer can be horrific when paying back.

Cunt! I got offered a provisional place at Oxford when I was 16, all I had to do was get 3 A's at A level. Piece of piss.

Yup, 2:1 BA in French and Italian and an MA in a related field.  Finished everything 5 years ago and only just beginning to chip away at the original Student Loan amount.

Nope! but I am a qualified Cheerleading instructor!! woooo

I know many people who left education after A-Levels and have great jobs - I envy that in many ways.

However, University was my ticket out of Westbury!

No went straight from school into the shopfitting business..

Nope. might go back one day.

I have 5/12ths of a degree thruogh Open University. 4 statistics modules - 1 maths. I need to get around to finishing it off - probably economics or psychology.

Does my degree that I bought from Khao San Road for 2,000 baht count?

Of course.

Ace.

I reckon that mine is the best because it didn't take me 3 years and a shed load of debt to get it. :smugfu:

HND In Business Admin and 50 metres swimming badge.

Degree in progress

Yup I do.

I wasn't going to go to uni, but realised an extra 2 years of work on stupidly shit wages (i've heard some people get paid as low as 9k a year for what I wanted to do) wasn't really what I wanted. So I opted for 3 years of fun, independence and life experience at university. I absolutely loved it, best decision I ever made.

I applied for a trainee accountants job when I left college and that was £9k a year. Didn't get it mind.

My very first IT job was on £9k.

NO....i went to school at at time when you had to be rich or clever to go to uni...

So you're a bit of a tard then?

No degree, just a HND in Business & finance.  I really wasn't interested in the whole Uni thing and have no regrets about not going to be honest.

An HNC in Applied Physics with Endorsements in Further Electronics, Applied Optics and Vacuum Technology.

Five years of day release, one whole day and three evenings a week at college. I wasn't interested in the university thing either, I preferred to work at the same time. No debt either.

Probably!

But exams were difficult then.

Retards can go to Uni now and join every man and his dog!

But it's great to tell everyone you have a degree in retardology.

I have a chemistry degree.

It is only the dregs of society who go to university nowadays

I couldn't decide so went travelling instead. Got A Levels though, best decision I ever made as what I wanted to do needed more experience as opposed to qualification.

I'd still really like to do a language course or something travel/geography related (higher qualification) but unfortunately I can't afford to do it.

Perhaps I should jack my job in and claim benefits as then it would be free? Actually lets not go down this route in view of a recurrence of a previous debate.

I'm a Doctor of rhyme, a Gangsta PHD
A graduate from The Ghetto University
I've got a bite like a cobra, poison you with my venom
Nothing scares me except excessive use of denim.

I've been to the USA and will hopefully next year venture to Central or South American with University. Depends what you do though.

I was going to do a year at an American uni but Plymouth had ended their exchange program with Boston and replaced it with somewhere I didn't want to go to.

Degree in Comp science & info systems with a bit of educational psychology on the side.

I'm in my 2nd year at the moment doing Geography with Economics at the LSE. Very difficult degree and very expensive. A good laugh though and I love the independence - it's the only way I could afford to spend 3 years in London straight after leaving school

'ark. One of the best uni's in the country I'm told.

Whats a degree?   :bye:

I have the finish line in sight...2 more months(ish). Can't fucking wait.

Yep, degree.

Back in the days where you didn't find them in cereal packets.

MBA here

I take it your doing more human geography than physical seeing as you're doing economics as well?

Somefink to do wiv triangles and angels.

Did someone say they have Three Degrees ?

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FWIW I don't have a degree. Got a job in IT straight after a-levels and when you're living at home £13k a year is a lot of money.

I do wish I had a degree sometimes and have looked several times at OU courses but don't know what to do, certainly nothing fucking IT related!

A lovely generalization, well done :)

I have to admit, I got mine when I was 33 and it was the hardest thing I have ever done

BA Hons in Politics

Degree in progress.

Absolutely loving life at uni, no regrets.

thats criminal

Despite not having a degree I have given lectures to MBA students at Universities of Bath, Bristol and De Montford Leicester. I felt like a fraud, which of course I was.

Graduate of the Plastics and Rubber Institute,  it took seven years of day release study while working as a technologist then upgraded to professional membership, MIM. It did not cost a lot (except man hours).

Yep.  BA Hons in English from the delightful Leicester Demontfort University.

A preparation for life.  Apparently.

Can't teach an old dog new tricks eh Fred ? (not easily anyway)

I must admit,don't think I could have gone back to studying after a break - I did A-levels, degree, Accountancy qualification,consecutively. Then threw away the books !

Not everyone on benefits is a jobless loser dear  ;)
Have you looked in to Open University? I only ask as a friend of mine after my suggestion looked into it... she works full time, no kids, has her own house with a lodger and she still got ALOT of money off... she is on her second course now on her way to a maths degree

yeah, just me.

ben would be but he's too lazy to claim

i didn't realise uni was free if you're on jobseekers - what?

I'll make that 2 jobless losers then - surely you can't seek benefits on top of having a student loan etc? Maybe its different if you're doing it part time

BSc Hons Biochem.

Finally finished paying off the loan last year - I was the first crop of undergraduates to not get a grant.

With Open Uni the funding etc its all worked on household income I believe... check out the website... you have nothing to loose!

Yeh. A lot of the geography here focuses on economics and politics as much as anything else

2:2 in Business Management from UEA Norwich. Gash subject, but living away from home at that age with alot of disposable income was amazing, though the debt incurred scares me now.

Starting a PGCE in Primary Education at Oxford Brookes in September.

Get yourself a nice Primary on Blackbird Leys for placement...

2-1  Fine Art & History of Art

Thats obviously a lie.

Fine Art would never beat History of Art 2-1 that's for sure.

It's similar for the Geography course up in Manchester where there were a few economic/political modules, with some others linked to development and then only a couple of truly physical geography bits. Strangely you could have done all the human/economic/political courses and got a BSc, or all the physical scientific modules and got a BA - all dependent upon which one you applied for at college/sixth form - such was the freedom of the modules you took.

Diploma in Estate Management from Oxpox Poly - then Chartered Surveyor - now beachcomber, craftworker and dog walker   :dog:  

What more can you do on the Isles of Scilly?

Nope, Finished my A-levels and decided I'd had enough of the education system.... I really didn't do much in my last year of it and had had enough of it all. I'm glad I've done my A-Levels though as ifI change my mind and decided I want to go, hopefully I can still get in.

No. HND in Electrical & Electronic Engineering in Baff, then work. Currently studying for my Practitioner Level Project Manager Qualification, which is of far more value to me than a degree would be right now.

none for me,few gnvqs,didnt look back at all and glad i didnt go

BA in English and Sociology

BA in Finance, Accounting & Management from the University of Nottingham now studying towards a professional accountancy qualification

  Prince 2 or APM?

APM. Will do Prince2 in due course as well. Can't wait for the Assessment Centre.......

I did APM first, looking to do Prince later this year.

Degree and Diploma from Newcastle, graduated 10 years ago and still not finished paying off the student loan!

Actually signed up this afternoon for an MSC at College of Estate Management in Reading, so here we go again!

Ph.D.

There's a fair number of accountants/trainee accountants on here, which I didn't expect.  I nearly went down that route, did a year of CIMA but found it completely lacking in numbers which was the bit that interested me.

And your thesis was..?

BA in accounting from University of Manchester.  Also studying CIMA now, oh the fun of three evening a week for 8 weeks! YAY

Materials Science

Yes, really glad I went, and despite the fact I had no idea why I chose the subject I did, I'm in an industry I really enjoy and am really interested in.

Uni was the most fun I've had, and although it sounds a bit twattish I found out a lot of stuff about myself, although not too sure if that was due to being at Uni or if it just 'that time of my life'.

Full title of your thesis? I'm not being funny, I'm just interested in what your original research was on.

That's management accountancy for you!

Prediction of Fracture Toughness, Stress-Corrosion Cracking Thresholds, and Corrosion Fatigue Thresholds in Iron-Base Materials.


Just realized my Avatar is about fracture in iron and steel, that's scary.

Perhaps we should change the title of the forum to "65% graduates, 80% Bollocks" ?

Thats the way I hope to go as well, have an interview later today so I have my finger firmly crossed!

And an actuary (I think I'm the only one). I did a masters in mathematics though

I thought about doing an actuary course instead of going to university. The person who told me about it was one of the scariest people i've ever met though, and i chose against it.

True story

we're not all nutters. Most of us are though sadly

did you become an actuary because you found accountancy to exciting?

My idea of higher education was having to walk up stairs to get to a lesson.

Good work. Any chance you posties could learn to shut gates?

You're joking aren't you, thats too much effort.

The paper boy manages it......

Come on, they barely deliver the post.

:)

I got my courses mixed up, I never even came close to doing CIMA, I did ACCA.  I'd probably have stuck with CIMA a little longer, although either would eventually have seen me bail out in boredom.  Not that I'm knocking accountancy, just that it never ended up being what I;d expected.