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?
PhD in fizzy pop
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.
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 - MemberBroadly, 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.