is anyone able to go to uni?
I'm doing 4 years at college. a gap year, then 2 years at university..
can anyone go?
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is anyone able to go to uni?
I'm doing 4 years at college. a gap year, then 2 years at university..
can anyone go?
whatcha mean by "can anyone go"?
if you get the required grades for that uni, then of course you can.
anyone can go to uni as long as you fulfil the course requirements so grades wise, you may need an ABB in A levels or similar with scottish highers (?) or you speak to the uni about what your plans are
I'm not going, I think it's too expensive and I'd rather stay close to home. I can't afford to rent a place, pay for courses etc. Instead I'm doing a Computeach course after college.
if you have the £s and the Grades then yes.
In scotland for Medicine or Vetinary practice you need 5 A's in your final exams (Highers we call em).Quote:
Originally Posted by kk.
I'm going next year, i don't think money's a restriction, the amount of loans and grants about nowadays. And it's really not difficult to get into a uni, some are the requirements are very low.
yes you can go. u dont necessarily need money. theres always loans. and err if you ask me, i dont know coz itll depend on my mood lmao
depend on your mood? lol, thats a new one. if you stay at home, youll see taht your living costs and total fees will decrease by about 7000 a year compared to if you move out. thats, in a typical 3 year course with a normal room, a saving of 21000 lol. Still, i suspect you would be working so thats reduced a bit.
You make that sound like alot, but you don't start paying back loans until your earning over a certain amount, so your living costs for while you're at uni could be even cheaper than home, and interest on the loans is minimum.Quote:
Originally Posted by kk.
Wouldn't you much rather live the life for 3/4 years? I plan on staying out of full time employment for as long as i can ;). All of my mates are going to different uni's this year so if i stayed at home and got a job i'd just be bored i think.
I'm really intellectual and all that but I've actually decided not to go. I've finished college now and I'm having a year of just general work but long term I'm looking to join the police and get right into a career that way. The mix of tuition fees, a massively growing number of people with degrees (making them less important) and a lack of any idea what else I might do helped with that decision lol
Going to university really is worth it. It's expensive (trust me), but I don't care how much debt I will have upon graduation (I guess anywhere between £12,000 and £20,000). It is paid off in a very manageable way, and graduate salaries are appealing. In the line of work I am looking at, training salaries are between £30,000 and £38,000 in the first year, up to £35,000 to £45,000 in second year of training, and ~£60,000 thereafter. See, 20k of debt can pay itself off many times over in a matter of years.
Your education is an investment.
Hoping to go next year to do an Advertising/ Marketing course.
sent off application 2 weeks ago :P
Applied for MMaths (4 Year masters in mathematics degree)
Applied to: Oxford, Durham, Wawrick, Nottingham, Sheffield
If Oxford consider me i'll have interview, and have to pass their admissions test, and Wawrick require me to pass a STEP paper. :D
I am not going to think about the debt, Ramone made a good post - you don't have to pay it until your earning above a certain level, and then its paid off gradually - Barmi has phrased it well - education is an investment :eusa_clap
I am not sure where i am going 100% , but I have applied so that i can either get an apprenticeship in accountancy and defer entry at Uni for a year (if allowed) - or go straight to Uni, or stay in the apprenticeship.
Your post just motivated me to have a flick around the University of Oxford's website. I thought it curious that it doesn't list sitting the STEP as an entrance requirement, but merely encourage candidates to take the papers if available to them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Soka
Good luck with your application! I hope you get a chance to shine at interview. (Oh, and two of the universities I applied to (this time last year??) were Durham and Nottingham... my second and third choice places respectively.)
Yeah your right about that - oxford have their own entrance exam not STEP - but having spoke to my maths tutor about it he says that for oxford i'll be required to take their entrance exam due to only doing an AS in Further Maths (this year) - and not an A2 in Further maths - regret doing so, so i'll be at a disadvantage without it thus need to sit entrance at oxford, only Cambridge and Wawrick use STEP i believe. Wawrick will most likely require a II in Step I and Step II as i'm not doing A2 in Further Maths. He said at oxford its like a 1:2 tutor to student tuition - how good is that.. And thanks :PQuote:
Originally Posted by Barmi
What uni you at & what you studing?
I'm at "the other one", studying law. Yeah, the bulk of your quality learning will be through tutorials where you have two or three people per tutor(?). (I think that's what they get called? We have supervisions with supervisors, which are essentially are the same. It just gets really confusing because we have tutors as well!) A really intense learning experience when you are sat learning from experts in the subject, the people who write the textbooks... and you probably will feel like your head is going to burst sometimes. They are fellows, doctors and professors, not teachers... you will go through some material you have already prepared and go through anything you have difficulty with... and your knowledge and understanding will feel like it has been lifted about 10 floors higher when you leave the room an hour later. But it's exciting! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Soka
Lectures give you the course material, but you are expected to do a lot of preparation for your tutorials. I have to spend at least 20 hours preparing for each supervision... of which I have four a fortnight, on top of the 22 hours of lectures a fortnight I have, and any essays I may be given. Then when you factor in any extra-curricular activities or societies you want to join (and the number of events that take place!!), you will soon want more time, and want to cut into your sleep.
Some Cam colleges require potential mathmos (in addition to their STEP) answer some maths questions an hour or so before their subject interview, on which you then get grilled. Just a note on the further maths thing though: the first week of lectures will basically recap the whole of the A-level Maths and Further Maths courses.
I think all of your choices are excellent ones. I have friends at each of those institutions. Best of luck. :)
If you don't mind me asking, which Oxford and Durham colleges did you apply to? Or did you do an open application?
You need the correct amount of 'ucas' points to go. My uni asked for 280 (if you don't get the right amount of points, its ok, sometimes they still offer you the place, more likely that they don't though). The 'ucas' points are different for every uni. 280 is a ABB i think or something along those lines.
You don't necessarily need the dosh, but its good if you have it. tbh i don't have the dosh, and many of my friends don't either, but obviouslky thats why the loans are there. I have a loan for fee's and i'm about to take another out to get a matinence loan. I chose to live at home, good idea as its £90 a week less than some of my uni mates have to pay, but i've got to pay about £50 a week in petrol, so it all adds up. The big reccomended thing is to get a job whilst your at Uni. Fee loans go straight to uni, matinanece is used on travel/accomodation for most people at uni. Food is another thing though?.. Job is always good.
I can tell you, that if you live in a small town. Everyone else goes to uni, and your left on your own :P
I mean i go to uni, but its 50 miles away, so i live at home still, for my age, my town is like a ghost town.
if get 280 - 300 ucas points - yes lol
primary school teaching course i think
idk.. i cant stay in northern ireland, because its too competitive to get into stranmillis, but its alot easier to get into unis in england
and 280 ucas points is BBC
OMG. thought it was 3 Cs :| LOL.
I'm doing a foundation degree course with the open university, which looks pretty good from all the documents, guides and booklets I've read through. Not too expensive either. It's more of a personal challenge than a means to get a job, but I will use it to get one after the course is over :)
That's all very well and good luck to you, but it does depend on actually getting a placement in training or in whatever job you're looking to do after uni. Graduate salaries are great yeah... for those who get the jobs. Most of the time that's based on contacts and who you know not what you've got to offer, and that's the sad truth of most high earning careers. Also if you're not 100% certain of what you want to do, uni is a waste of money and time really, especially with degrees meaning a lot lot less than they did a decade ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barmi
Im doing GCSE, 2 years A level, Uni (training to be a doctor) then go out to Africa to work for a bit then come back and settle down ;)
Good luck Lukey, that sounds like a really good future. (Loving the work in Africa especially!)
Go for it! I did an OU finance course on the side at college, and it really is a good way to learn. Requires a lot of self motivation, but working in the OU is flexible and rewarding. Good luck!Quote:
Originally Posted by GommeInc
Then I'm pretty suckered because I don't know anyone. No, serious. State school kid, whose secondary school was a state school which is now closing, and whose college was a perfectly run of the mill college. Don't know anybody in high places. Will that stop me from trying for a high-flying job? No. The majority of mainstream jobs nowadays are based on merit. All I need is a good 2:1.Quote:
Originally Posted by FlyingJesus
If you don't have any idea of what you might like in the future, then of course it's a waste of time. Wait until you decide what you want to do, then go forth and act. But for anyone who puts the effort in on their degree course, I would never say it is a waste of money, nor would I devalue their degree and say it doesn't mean anything.
Can you explain why "degrees [mean] a lot less than they did a decade ago"? Seriously, I'm intrigued.
Essentially degrees are impractical unless the job is very specialised, e.g. science where you need specific textbook knowledge. But most people need one nowadays because more and more people are getting degrees meaning there is more educational competition and saying you went to university on your CV has less prestige.
That was the case until the Credit Crunch... Our generation will find it seriously hard to borrow money because of what's happening...Quote:
Originally Posted by Ramones
I think loans is the last thing people want to be taken at the moment, especially if your 19, 20. But yeh, Of course you can go to University, if you have the right qualifications for the right thing then yes. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by disconnected
smallest sixth form in the country :8.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barmi
But will it really be that small with your new building coming? And is it truly a sixth form now, given the merger?Quote:
Originally Posted by Cod
And how are you Dan? Will you be coming down in two weeks as well? There are some good clothes shops!!
I don't know to the first bit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barmi
And of course I'm coming down, I almost miss you :P. It's funny, I was thinking about the shops :$...
i have guarenteed job placement with the bbc or sky with my course ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by FlyingJesus
Ok first off 280 Ucas points is DMM or ABB..
Also you don't have to pay back the loan until you are earning £15,000+ a year. Also the monthly repayments are stupidly low, depending on how much you borrow.
:eusa_danc
Most courses need so many UCAS points
i'm planing on going to uni after i finish college:)
most of the unis im applying for needs around 300, which is basically straight C's. (3 a levels 2 as levels)Quote:
Originally Posted by Fifteen
im doing 4 A levels, at physics chemistry, maths and further maths
no idea what i want to do. :(
I have a long time to go , so alott can change - for when its my time to go to uni. So hopefully, yes I will go and hopefully will!
I started at Staffordshire University on September 15th, I'm doing Psychology and Criminology BSC (Hons), its a three year course so I'll be finishing in 2011 hopefully :P
The student finance system is government run, i'm pretty sure the government aren't gonna go bust. And are gonna be pretty happy to give out student loans and keep kids in education and get skillz and all that economics rubbish.Quote:
Originally Posted by Holofoil
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Originally Posted by Barmi
^ For that reason. It's like anything really, if more people have something then its value is decreased. If you get a specific degree that goes right into a certain area of work like medical or engineering degrees then sure, you're going to have a good chance of placement somewhere, but in less specific job lines experience or connections will serve you far better. I'm not saying degrees are useless, but they guarantee nothing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Virgin Mary
Couldn't you also look at it and say, degree's are getting more common so most employers expect them nowadays. Therefore if you don't have one you're less likely to be employed?Quote:
Originally Posted by FlyingJesus
The university course i'm hoping to get on is a sandwich course with a year in industry, 92% of graduates are in full time employment after 6 months on that course. I'm pretty hopeful :)
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Originally Posted by Cloning
no.. 280 ucas points is BBC.
and 300 = BBB