[Closed] How educated are you?

Doctor/Dr = medic to general population
PhD = PhD to general population

Think I got them all but they mean shite without common sense.

😀

Think I got few of them but they mean shite without common sense.

😀

Cubs silver arrow.
Grade 5 violin.
Amazing how much of my leisure time and home life draws on the bits I would have first learnt in these first two err, qualifications.

whereas nursing diploma/post-reg degree modules are useless outside my 37.5 hour working week, and a healthy interest in new wave cinema, absurdist theatre and André Gide are completely useless but nevertheless got me my most 'impressive' piece of paper.

I'm a lorry driver.

Take a guess. 😀

O's, Highers (easy Scottish A's!) and a Desmond in Mech Eng when they were proper hard. Never used it - well apart from blowing things up!

MSc and professionally chartered (not sure which one is higher).

Though on a daily basis I deal with people from all backgrounds and levels of education and the lower educated ones are not necessarily the dumbest or most annoying to deal with.

Doctor/Dr = medic to general population
PhD = PhD to general population

So from this we have

General population = idiots 😉

ourmaninthenorth - Member

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....

I think that this entire post deserves an award for being the best I have yet read on STW! (especially the quoted lines) 😀

I did well in my Highers, so went to uni and then dropped out after a couple of years.

Fast forward to now, and I've just got onto a graduate scheme run by my employer, proving that my failure to graduate didn't really matter.

I'm also a level 1 swimming coach, quite a nice certificate too.

HNC Electronic Engineering, some of which I use.

Since then:

3 weeks of a BEng, company supporting me relocated to LA. £3k bursary, spent 🙂

6 months of an HND, half of which I spent under the influence of Codeine and with 5 broken bones. Quit.

Last time I was lining up my FE options, my director pulled me aside and offered me a promotion instead. I'm taking the hint 🙂

Just before educational system became flooded with mediocrity.

That's when everyone got their qualifications. They always get easier just after you finish.

= 5 digit student loan = enough education perhaps?

Though I don't use what I studied now.

Left school at 16, best year/earnings into six figures, currently unemployed...

Comprehensive School - 9xOs (good grades) and 2xAs (duff grades)
Batchelors degree in Engineering Systems - 2.1 Hons
The rest is books and Radio 4

Not very.

To the same standard as Ernie_Lynch, CSE's and that's it.

I hated school and in the main it hated me – been dyslexic in a time when it was widely believed to be an excuse for been stupid, lazy or both. I was told at high school that I would not be entered in to ‘o’ levels as there was no point. My parents fought the school and I was allowed to sit my CSEs which were less then spectacular but no real fails. On leaving school I went to collage and scraped a couples of GCSEs
In my mid twenties and after some fairly unfulfilling jobs I started with the OU and did their foundation course and although I enjoyed this did not follow it on to degree level.
However, this gave me enough points to do my nurse training this gave the confidence to think of myself as an academic and a Dip HE in Nursing (mental health) this in turn led me to a post grad diploma in mentorship (level m) and finally my MSc (Dementia) studies.
The thing that gratifies me the most about this is that I am now more qualified then the d*ckhead teacher who said I was too stupid to get any qualifications.

I have a shed-load of degrees and assorted quals but no shed,alas.

I harv a tiping quafilikashun
but nott a spelin wun

Got a diploma in mental health nursing after not being too focused at school.

2:1 BSc Hons in Maths - which I feel I've done an exceptionally good job of forgetting in the year and a half since graduating - and an MSc in Operational Research which technically I might not have until July when the graduation ceremony is.

Some stuff from school where i basically messed around and played rugby, a Desmond from uni where i got drunk chased girls and played rugby, a PhD don't know how but a was drunk a lot (chemistry is bad for the liver). After working for a living went to furry mouse (Moray House thingy whatsit of education) got a PGCE and so now just get drunk and have holidays.

Hooray for me.

well I have O levels and A levels and I did go to University, but I got too involved in the music scene to concentrate on my studies (BSc Physical Electronics FWIW), of which I got bored, so I dropped out after 2 years

i like to think nim smart and talk like im smart but most of the time i have no idea what im talking about. just generally make good guesses

not too good at spelling either 😆

2:1 Hons, don't know how or why

<Manuel>I know nothing</Manuel>

tonyg2003, which bit of HPA? CHaPD here.

I have the essentials to do my job it'll do for me.

Left school at 16, did an apprentiship.
Went to uni later.
Back into industry for a few years.
Back to uni to do a Phd.
Back into industry for a few years.
Currently considering going back into academia.

Picked up a shit load of quals along the way.

2,i in Environmental Pollution Science.

That got me into a hugely unrewarding and po-faced profession where insipid consultants write lots of documents about what you're going to do, have more meetings than I have red blood cells and slowly drain any vestige of interest (or indeed, life) from the the work.

Still, redundant last March. Every cloud has a silver lining.

[i]Doctor/Dr = medic to general population
PhD = PhD to general population [/i]

that's the x-factor-watching Sun-reading general population, right? Not anybody who actually knows anything?

BSc Hons Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
MSc Neuroscience
offered PhD continuing my master's project. No chance. 1) couldn't see the point other than to make my mother happy and 2)I don't like giving animals Parkinson's Disease.

Never used ANY of it.

hnc (part time)/ BSc hons 2:1 in chemistry, Phd in organic chemistry.

Worked hard for them, proud of them, and have made use of qualifications and have worked in pharmaceuticals for 15 yrs in operations/ production.

So no regrets.

Ps dont use Dr title in every day use but use it in professional environment.

Three goes at uni... three dropouts in the first year. Mind, this was back when it was proper hard. 😳

Once upon a time I felt embarrassed I didn't have a degree- now I feel quite proud of it.

2.1 BEng(Hons) in Mechanical Engineering at an old Scottish University.
A crappy college diploma from Glasgow College of Technology
Level III Scotec thingy
I think I failed my maths and physics highers (oops...) but got Techy Drg
Cycling proficiency
Tufty Club

2.2 materials engineering
MSc Superconduting Matierials (From a physics dept)
Quit Phd in fatigue of welded aluminium after 20 months to go and do paid research into the fatigue of welded steel..

I use my edumacation every day and thank the secondary school I went to for pointing me towards the sciences and giving me fundamental problem solving skills.

I value my education very highly I am now doing what I love and it seems to be loving me...

I knew a bloke who was a technician in a big metals research centre in Holland, he was the cleverest bestest metallurgist I have ever met, he invented a new corrosion resistant weldable Al Alloy formulation which almost every lightweight passenger ferry built since 1998 is now made of. Not a single post 17 qualification to his name, although he had read a lot of books and had lots of experience.

Nobody else going to admit to a Douglas?

Grade 6 trumpet
3* kayak
Lifesaving Distinction
Cycling proficiency badge

[i]Nobody else going to admit to a Douglas?[/i]
I will. It's the only way. Ride bikes, drink beer, play in a band, scrape a pass, go onto postgraduate education.

MetalHeart - Member

Tufty Club

Respect!

i've got 10 O levels, 5 A/AS levels, 2:1 in Chemistry from a proper Uni and my best achievement is being college soccer captain (and ever present for 3 years in the 1sts) and later Captain of my Cricket Club. I think captaining sports teams tells you more about man management than any academic course.

I've also got grade 7 in [whispers] recorder. Although at that level it's not that horrible squeaky descant you all remember from secondary school.

got a shite honours degree in envrionmental science then stopped partying so hard and went on to get lots of proffesional qualifications for boring health safety and environmental stuff. Now have lots of letters after my name that mean **** all unless you are another geek but do get to play with all sorts of exceedingly dangerous things and clients seem to believe I'm an expert. HOW THE **** did that happen to a pissed up old goth??

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2.1 Hons BEng in something or other.
Mostly irrelevant now.
Dropped out of a bricklaying apprenticeship once.
Some swimming badges also.

I still dream I failed my MA , wake up having wandered around an empty campus - it was tough.
Other more important priorities now. My most sucessful peer left school at 18.

educated to HND level with quite a few professional qualifications afterwards blah de blah but really.... qualifications get you into the job, after that you're on your own and after 6 months no-one is interested in your qualifications (actually, no-one is interested after 6 minutes) and it's really what you can do that matters after that).

3/4 through a Bsc/ MA degree at St Andrews

more than I need to be right now, future proofing for when I want to progress, experience and the qualifications

but right now, all I need know is the sharp end of the saw, a small grasp of how gravity works and how to hit things

My sister has just got a 1st class honours degree from the OU.
Every book I seemed to pick up from her course work was about death & dying.
If nothing else, she will one day put that knowledge to good use, I guess.
In the meantime, she's worth more in the job market - but can't seem to land a better job.
Problem is, I suspect, she was not in either the Tuffty Club nor the I Spy club, nor for that matter the Dennis the Menace fan club, unlike her brother!

Adequately.

Educated enough to know I should start a pension savings scheme (GCSE's, A Levels and Honours Degree)

Misguided enough to think that ploughing all my money into the lottery every week instead is a suitable alternative. 😀

Master's (1st Class) in Rocket Science (aka Mechanical Engineering with Aeronautics).

More recently:

International Mountain Leader (1 course to go!)
Mountain Leader
Scottish Mountain Bike Leader

a hnc in electrical engineering and not much else, apart from my whit and verbal dexterity....................

In the words of tull.
Thick as a brick 😀
😉 2 time served trades and qualified in a further 2 to HND standard.
🙄 I get bored easily
I dont need or even have to work.when i do its more for its entertainment value than anything constructive

10 GCSEs
3 A grade A-levels
BM
Most of the way through Royal College membership at a thankless cost of a few grand...

All that and I still have to be awake at 4.15am, fuelled by coffee and 'nanas, seeing people who aren't really sick.....

Still, it's all fun!

DrP

I think some people might be confusing "education" with "qualifications" 😕

I am educated enough to believe in climate change, and to find Horizon patronising.

I think some people might be confusing "education" with "qualifications"

In a non-argumentative way - surely qualifications come as a result of an education, no?
Agreed, some qualifications hold more merit than others, but [u]generally[/u] they are evidence of a persons education.
Discuss

DrP

What do you mean by "Educated"?

persons education.

I don't think I've got it too badly wrong after being awake for almost 24hrs.....

I take a simple grammatical error as a pass!

Enjoy your day Ti29er...... 🙄

DrP

Pile of GCSEs with good results, 4 a-levels with disappointing results (but enough to get me to my chosen uni), another holder of a desmond level BSc. Season with a few vocational qualifications.

Basically enough to get into my chosen job and stay there.

A Blue Peter badge for drawing a stamp when I was seven or eight.

Or

2:2 in BSc Civil Engineering with CAD (yes I was really lazy) which I have never used but seems to have been well respected when going for unrelated jobs and should get me onto a PGCE next year.

Also a Blue Peter badge;
Cycling Proficiency (96 out of 100 - probably my academic peak);
Various O Levels;
1 A level;
HND Material Technology;
BSc Metallurgy;
Assorted finance stuff

Most of what I've learnt though has probably come about in the last 5 years of doing a grown-up job!

As someone said above though, I've always just scraped through and wish I'd put a lot more into it when I was younger. Now work 12+ hour days and retirement and therefore bike riding when I feel like is still far, far away.....

a BA and an MA in Theoretical and Experimental Physics. yes, they gave me an arts degree... 😉

no blue peter badge though!

Dr midgebait BSc(Hons) MSc MIEMA

Summer MLTB
RAF Flying Scholarship

... and still a ****t 🙂

O' level Astronomy (grade C) -- really.

Not educated enough to know what ****ing tyres I should be using.

Degree in rock climbing but for some reason they put Metallurgy on the piece of paper - don't remember much of that! Post Grad in Marketing
no cycling profiency though - certificate or actual
assistant beaver leader

antigee, with a 'degree' in rock climbing, I'll put reasonable odds on you either having 'studied' at Sheffield or Leeds?

'degree' in rock climbing...'studied' at Sheffield or Leeds?

all predictable

Desmond in Geography from Durham, use of degree since uni = zero.

Since then I've gained an NVQ at one point in providing Energy Efficiency Advice and passed my ITIL v3. qualification in Release, Control and Validation. So I used to know a lot about Energy saving lightbulbs and cavity wall insulation and now I just know how to wind up 'techies'. 😉

BA Hons in Economics and Maths. Went to uni when I was 26 after doing a few poorly paid jobs but in general enjoying them and having no stress. Earning enough now but....

Never used anything I learned at uni in my job but a degree gave me the confidence that I am in fact quite intelligent.

If I could do things again I should really be doing something like engineering as I'm very practical.

6 highers

desmond in Beng , mech eng from dundee uni

and a "basic oilfield technology" course courtesy of my employer ....

currently on a 2 year training scheme to become a field engineer so shall startpicking up useful qualifications shortly - only thing from my degree ive used since i graduated 2 years ago (how time passes) is my excel skills !

I've got an H licence

best
fun
ever

Define educated? I have a pile of certificates from school and uni with some letters and numbers on but that just meant I passed the exams. There's more to education than the acquisition of facts, especially pointless ones about obscure chemicals. I think real educations is teaching people how they can acquire their own facts and knowledge.

For the record (and because I'm reasonable proud of them) 10 GCSEs (8xA*, 1xA and 1xB), 4 A levels (AAAB), and a first class Mchem.

WOW, my cycling proficiency just isn't cutting the mustard..

I think real educations is teaching people how they can acquire their own facts and knowledge.

Qualifications are proof and measure of attainment in an education system. Schooling is therefore a [i]vehicle [/i]for an individual's education.

Education isn't simply the acquisition of knowledge. It's also the application of knowledge.

Cycling Proficiency
County Certificate for swimming
10 O Levels ['78]
4 A Levels & 2 S Levels ['80]
MA, PhD in Natural Sciences
MBA
Some professional qualification or other

... and only maths bits & the first two have been of the slightest use.

13 GCSEs
4 A Levels
Foundation Diploma in Art & Design
First Class degree in History
MA in Medieval History
MA in Archaeology and Heritage
and i still earn less then almost everyone I know from school, especially those who left at 16...
Plus I'm nowhere near to paying off my student/graduate loans 🙁

3 unspeakably poor A levels.

Geoff in a geography/ecology BSc. I also have a certificate in hedge-laying. Did get me a job, so the knowledge got used, but I didn't enjoy the job much.

Currently taking an MSc in working for the man!

Educated enough to be horrified by the spelling and grammar of my peers. And I am aware of the fact that mine isn't perfect.

and i still earn less then almost everyone I know from school, especially those who left at 16...
Plus I'm nowhere near to paying off my student/graduate loans

I wonder why? 😉

MA in Medieval History
MA in Archaeology and Heritage