[Closed] How educated are you?

Iz cun reed un rite.

I R EDUK8ED.

I'm not bright but I can lift heavy things.

To degree level, although you learn for more by self educating (read mistakes) than you do from schooling. Yourself?

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too educated for most jobs 😳

Sufficiently for my current employment.

just enough education to perform

University of life, mate. University of life. 🙂

simples....

Educated enough to earn a comfortable living but not enough to do my kid's homework some nights.

I have a degree in drinking, dancing very badly, sausage sandwiches, rugby league and mechanical engineering.

2:2* degree from a "proper" university 😉

* yes I know, sh*te 🙂

Expensively...

i was educated by the school of life

oh and a HND, 4 a-levels and 10 GCSEs, none of which has helped me gain employment in my chosen profession 🙂

i went to university but did little work, this prepared me for employment in the public sector.

University of Life for me to. And School of 'Ard Knocks, obviously.

from what i've read elsewhere, clearly more than some but less than others!

allthepies - Member

2:2* degree from a "proper" university

* yes I know, sh*te

Nowt wrong with a Desmond.

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Left school before taking exams, my old man died and I just took off, working my way round youth hostels, nothing glamourous like yoofs of today would do.

Did a HND and started a BA years later all a waste of time AFAIWC.

2:2 = relaxed, but competent.

I've got six A levels. Took me three years to get them though.

AAB at A-Level (comprehensive). Graduated from Oxford Uni (2.1). Hold a Diploma in Adult Nursing. Am halfway thru' an MA course in Archaeology. Earn **** all (& reasonably ok with that).

Well enough to know that riding a bike is more deserving of my time and effort than trying to climb the greasy corporate pole in an attempt to gain status 🙂

If I could go back and have another go at life the one I would do differently is work harder at school and university. I winged it for years, ended up OK but think I missed out on some things.

I've got six A levels. Took me three years to get them though.

Did you forget to leave school?

What mcboo said.

I have a PhD in magic* and Grade 8 trumpet.

Dr Joe
*I kid you not - "Creating Illusion in Computer Aided Performance" is the title. You can read it on my website.

2:1 (Hons) Mech Eng and it's not worth wiping my 455 on it! Over qualified for my current job but not enough experience for where I should be and too old for a graduate training position.

Should have left school at 16 and got myself a trade!

I have a PhD in cow shit

I just passed my grade 3 classical guitar. Everyone else taking music exams that day was at least three times younger than me.

I'm still cr@p!

Selection of qualifications in pedantry* and arguing#.

* Proofreading and accountancy
# 2:1 in Classics from a posh University

Bsc Hons, PhD molecular genetics and HPA clincal scientist. It's doesn't make you clever or practical though.

I'm dead clever, me. I haven't got any proof though.

gcses

a - levels

arts 2:1 degree from an ex-poly type uni which on reflection is pretty much worthless

most of my contempories seemed to get very enthused about where they wanted to go to Uni/ what course they wanted to do - and as a result ended up on good courses at good universities

I just knew I wanted to leave home and that was it - had vague ideas about wanting to live in London and just drifted to where I ended up

daft really as my a-level results, though not incredible were good enough to get me a place somewhere much better

my life since then has continued on a steady path of self inflicted under performance 😥

[i]riding a bike[/i]

The pedagogical value of riding a bike is.... immense. IMO.

Enough to know that education only gets your foot in the door, it's all down to YOU after that.

I've got six A levels. Took me three years to get them though.

Proper ones then, not modern ones.

Enough to know that education only gets your foot in the door, it's all down to YOU after that.

Edit....but not patient enough to allow the screen to refresh when it's going a bit slow.

I've got six A levels. Took me three years to get them though.

Proper ones then, not modern ones.

Welding Certificate 😀

Also, enough to be dismayed by the amount of typos and missing words in the mag each issue.

I don't have a degree but I still managed to get myself a post-graduate qualification, which p!ssed my Mrs off so much that she did an MBA to get even 😈 (and which I had to finance 🙄 )

Yep, a Desmond here too. (BSc Computer Science from Strathclyde Uni).

I wasn't entered for my GCSE in IT. I now teach A level IT.

Did you forget to leave school?

Resit year 🙂

Proper ones then, not modern ones.

1995 and 1996. 1995 were the last of the old-style exam-at-the-end ones; I got CDE. The following year, I went up from a D to an A when resitting the first of the modular A levels, despite taking all the modular exams in 1 year and doing no more work than before.

my life since then has continued on a steady path of self inflicted under performance

Sounds like me. I only once thought I was going to fail a course, in the second year of my degree. I actually worked at those units (Quantum Mechanics and other physics bobbins, which is dead useful on a primary teacher training degree) and I got firsts for those modules.

I have a PhD in magic

I think we have a winner.

Me? Masters in digital modulation, Fourier transforms and other such arcanery.

Welding Certificate

Any good with Commie seattubes Mary Hinge?

Gah! Double post.

O Grades x 7, Highers x 5, RGN, B.Nurs

Is a person's education a good indicator of their intelligence....
Mr Cameron please stand up.

Another agreeing with what mcboo said. Drifted through education by being well liked by my friends and teachers but never worked hard. I have a good job but wonder what I might have achieved had I worked harder.

Eckythump, how do you get a post-grad qualification without a degree? This is something I'm looking into at the moment.

2:2 (BSc, not one of those poncy BA courses that you just have to attend to get a degree) and I've just posted the Dissertation for my MSc, fingers crossed.

2.2 Degree from a crap uni, in Geography. Pissed around but learnt how to look after myself (sort of) and had an ace time.

MA Librarianship at a much better uni, worked a lot harder as a mature student (9 years after undergrad). Need a post grad qualification for work. And use stuff I learnt on it too.

Eckythump, how do you get a post-grad qualification without a degree? This is something I'm looking into at the moment.

You can often leverage "significant professional experience" as an entry qualification. Mine was through Lancaster Uni Mgt School and I believe my employer had contributed to the development of the course, which may have helped too.

To CSE standard.

struggled with proper A-levels in 1993, took 4, and ended up with BDE and a loverly U 🙂 - im so glad you dont even get a certificate for a U - its like i never took it 🙂

somehow managed to scrape into a uni i wanted to go to (Liverpool) and managed a 2:1 BSc looking at rocks and rivers and climate and global warming and stuff (geology & geography degree) - even went on to complete a PhD in looking at rocks.

now i look at rocks for a living! 🙂

Over educated (MSc) for anything I'll ever do.

A £200 IBM certification got me the highest paid job I'll probably ever have but I dished it because it wernt fulfilling innit.

BA, MA and PhD in colouring in. Now i teach it at a uni.

i get by.....just.

wot iz edukayshun?

Good O-levels, A-levels. Even an S-level
2ii from a proper university in a proper subject and a Mickey Mouse MSc soon after. Just before educational system became flooded with mediocrity.

Now I sit in front of a computer all-day. Success! 🙂

GCSEs
A Levels (C,D,E)
Desmond in European Contemporary Studies - mmmmm, 3 years of drinking - from an old poly which no longer exists.
Grade 5 Music Theory
Grade 8 Trumpet (Distinction)
Countless professional financial qualifications (all dull)

All means sh1t.

I forgot to say. Be suspicious of anyone who calls themselves Dr and has a PhD - it's a good bullshitter filter. To normal people Drs are medics.

I forgot to say. Be suspicious of anyone who calls themselves Dr and has a PhD - it's a good bullshitter filter. To normal people Drs are medics.

It may be that to 'normal' people Drs = medics, but it could be argued that PhDs [i]aren't[/i] the 'bullshitters'.

Dr SR

Proper ones then, not modern ones.

I got a B in General Studies in 1970. My entire study program was to read a single past paper...

8 O levels
4 A levels
BSc Hons (Geol)
3 years RGN training
18 months part time Operating theatre Diploma
18 months part time Intensive Care Diploma
..and I've been to 23 annual fire lectures...

I'm with Arthur C. Clarke though;

" Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic "

I mean, mobile phones? Even radio has me stumped; where is the wire?

BSC* and SSC**. And, of course, an BSc in Computer Science and Physics from good ol' Leeds (2:1). And an ATPL.

* Bronze Swimming Certificate
** Silver Swimming Certificate.

I got a cycling proficiency certificate!

Wine and spirits education trust (I think from memory!!) higher certificate.

@ tonyg2003

I forgot to say. Be suspicious of anyone who calls themselves Dr and has a PhD - it's a good bullshitter filter. To normal people Drs are medics.

Hmm. That's really weird: I thought anyone who had a PhD was entitled to call themselves Dr. Perhaps a course in Genuine Bullshit Filtering would be in order.

Dr Mattie_H

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8 O Grades
5 Highers
BSc(1st Class Hons.) in Computing Science, Glasgow Uni.
PGCE, Hairy ****t Uni.

No common sense.

I'd very much like an honorary degree; seems to be the least amount of effort for a qualification.

I have a good job but wonder what I might have achieved had I worked harder.

For me, I'd still have made the same decisions that have got me into this job. Anyway, hard work [i]when you don't need to[/i] is for fools.

Be suspicious of anyone who calls themselves Dr and has a PhD - it's a good bullshitter filter. To normal people Drs are medics.

Eh? I think you'll find it's the other way around: medical "doctors" do an undergrad degree and some poncing about in hospital chasing student nurses; people with PhDs/D.Phils do a doctoral degree after (at least) an undergrad degree and then grow beards.

Broadly, the convention is that people with PhDs/D.Phils tend only to refer to themselves by title if they work in a relevant environment, whereas every medic I meet can't wait to tell you they're God.

I just remind them that even God needs a lawyer when they f*** things up.... 😀

coca cola soccer skills award red and blue :wink:, o level engineering, c&g welder fabricator, first aid certificate, fork lift licence, class 1 licence, royal navay basic training certificate and last of all one that says iam right in the head! quite a mix when i look at it. Lets see if we can guess peoples jobs from their qualifications.

I forgot to say. Be suspicious of anyone who calls themselves Dr and has a PhD - it's a good bullshitter filter. To normal people Drs are medics.

Doctor = certain type of medic
Dr = title of people with PhD (or similar)

Where does Dr Pepper fit into this?

Some of the most highly educated people i know couldn't find their arse with both hands 🙂

I dun ok thow..

Where does Dr Pepper fit into this?

you don't have to use Dr in place of Mr/Mrs just like you don't have to put BEng (hons) or whatever after your name on letter do you.
Just showing off isn't it?

Post Grad level. But no degree.

No Jim'll Fix It badge - I failed.
I was the first one in my year to climb a rope to the top.

A 2:1 in marine biology up in St Andrews, four year courses are great for really getting that debt built up.

Then went and did 3 years PhD research on river pollution down in Manchester, got a proper job while writing up the thesis and never finished the corrections from the viva. Ho hum.

Some of the most effective people I work with didn't bother with uni, so I guess it's each to their own way of making/taking opportunities.