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I didn't know that - thanks, very useful
Sensible decision.
csb
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Is there not an ombudsman (Ofsted?) for universities?My own question went unanswered. Anyone know?
OIAHE. Set expectations to low.
Tell him to watch the remote lectures and take in course material from Stanford or similar. Too many UK Uni's are a joke for deep tech. Masters is not going to help unless you are at Red Brick. Best lecturers at UK uni's are guest lecturers working in industry. Even then, it's not as if Robert Playter or Sam Altman are lecturing in the UK too often. Industry is simply moving too fast for 2nd rate uni's.
Best just to hot foot it over to SF or London and jump onto a grad scheme at one of the AI or robotic co's asap to learn in the real world.
I did an MSc at a red brick uni after having done an OU undergrad. This was after >10 years in the workplace.
For the MSc as soon as they realised I was self funded the entry requirements went out the window, they were happy to take fairly poor quality students if they were paying. It was a cynical cash grab IMO.
Some of the teaching was great, some (often the most senior academics) was truly awful. A 2 hour monologue without any Q and A should be consigned to the rubbish heap. Why should I travel to listen to that when I can:
Tell him to watch the remote lectures and take in course material from Stanford or similar
If these places were flogging mortgages or insurance we would be seeing a huge mis selling scandal already.
Pretty cool courses out there for £0 too:
https://huggingface.co/deep-rl-course/unit0/introduction
and books:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Deep-Reinforcement-Learning-Action-Alexander/dp/1617295434
Some decent resource in this thread too: https://twitter.com/aakashg0/status/1649843909017899009?s=46&t=R3aLIeMacoRQYFHFUqdzVQ
Don’t understand this. Is he leaving or is he dropping to undergrad?
If the latter, what does that actually mean?
In Scotland you can sign straight up to a Masters. Our degrees are usually 4 years, Masters 5 years.
Plus the usual 'come back and do a Masters', most of which are 1 year.
The course eldest was on was MSc, he's dropping the last (5th) year and now gets different teaching for year 4.
Met him yesterday - he's planning on being on Canada by next summer. Likely a couple of years working, riding, mountains and learning to ski...
If these places were flogging mortgages or insurance we would be seeing a huge mis selling scandal already.
I agree.
I've got a relative who works (not in teaching) at another Scottish university. I find it frightening some of the attitudes around foreign students and thier £20k fees, let alone the UK students and thier £9k fees. Apparently 'everyone over sells' so they 'have' to do the same, and students should be grateful for the certificate at the end...