Degree classification advice?

[snapper_37]

you're just a good egg

Cadbury's Creme I hope

 

[HelenD123]

Snapper - I wouldn't worry about what he's doing now. Graduates can't just walk into a 'graduate job' as soon as they finish and will do anything to pay the bills. And there's nothing to say that all graduates want a 'graduate job'.

 

[snapper_37]

Snapper - I wouldn't worry about what he's doing now.

Oh don't get me wrong Helen, I really couldn't give a toss what he's doing now. He's an applicant for a position I need filling, that's all. I was just curious as every qualification I've had has served me well and relevant for the position I'm in now. Certificate in Life and Working with Complete peanuts being just one of those decorating my office wall.

Blimey, the dog's just farted out loud and it stinks. I think that's my cue to go!!! Thanks for all the good advice and bantery anyway.

 

[Tollers]

I got a 2.2 back in the day.......because i was schmoking too much. But i'd say a 2.2 from a good uni is better than a 1st from a bad one. Not all degrees are created equal.

 

[Yellow Fang]

I had a mate who got a 3rd in a Physics degree. He was actually a pretty clever chap, but was more interested in the social side of things in his last year of uni. A 3rd is almost better than a 2.2 Lots of people have 2.2s, but not so many get 3rds. I believe that below a 3rd, you can get awarded a straight degree without the honours bit, but I've never heard of anyone getting one, or may be they don't do them any more. Getting a 3rd or 2.2 would put you at a handicap when trying to find your first job, but after that it hardly matters. Experience and personal attributes matter more. My mate ended up as a project manager.

 

[Yellow Fang]

I got a 2.2 back in the day.......because i was schmoking too much. But i'd say a 2.2 from a good uni is better than a 1st from a bad one. Not all degrees are created equal.

Used to be back in the days of polytechnics, that polytechnic degrees were created equal as these institutions could not award their own degrees.

 

[User169]

I believe that below a 3rd, you can get awarded a straight degree without the honours bit, but I've never heard of anyone getting one,

They were called "specials" where I went to University and were typically used to encourage the recipients to go somewhere else. In my year one chap managed to get a special and duly left - he certainly wasn't dim, he just hated the place so did virtually no work whatsoever.

 

[Yellow Fang]

I started a degree course at Portsmouth Polytechnic, but dropped out and later studied an HND course instead. Years later one of my workmates told me HND stood for 'has no degree' - bastard.

 

[badkitty]

Kitty got a 3rd.

Bow down before me, mediocre sorts!

It was so pointless I didn't bother collecting it until 15 years after I graduated.

I went back to show my kids where it all began etc, and dropped into the records office just in case they still had it. And they did!
They thought I was dead.

Haven't seen it since actually...god knows what I did with it.

But the four years I spent getting it were the most valuable and well spent of my life, and I learned so much, far more important stuff than is written on the parchment thingy.

 

[theclaud]

They were called "specials" where I went to University and were typically used to encourage the recipients to go somewhere else. In my year one chap managed to get a special and duly left - he certainly wasn't dim, he just hated the place so did virtually no work whatsoever.

Neil Kinnock, I believe, has a Pass degree from the University of Wales...

 

[User169]

Neil Kinnock, I believe, has a Pass degree from the University of Wales...

And at the second attempt according to Wiki!!

 

[XmisterIS]

I got a 2:2, mainly because I was very young, didn't know a gift-horse even when I'd looked it in the mouth and I was more interested in drinking vodka and smoking dope than actually doing any work!

I am now back at uni doing a second degree in a different subject and so far I am on course for a 1st ... because I am older, wiser, more disciplined and a little fatter (but not much!)

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

I started a degree course at Portsmouth Polytechnic, but dropped out and later studied an HND course instead. Years later one of my workmates told me HND stood for 'has no degree' - bastard.

Whereas BSc=Bull Sh*t Certificate
and PhD= Piled Higher and Deeper

I've a BSc BTW of a grade referred to above as "bright and worked hard". I can vouch for the "worked hard" part - others can judge the other bit.

Sometimes these grades can be quite misleading - I've known some PhD's who were a waste of space.

 

[speedo]

2.2 is known as a lower second level degree.
Degrees go in the order of :1st / upper second / lower second and third being the lowest.
anything less than a 2.1 usually ends up in the green round thing at the side of the desk

As a matter of interest,what is the job you are looking to fill ??

I obtained a 1st in my PH d (paper hanging and decorating)

 

[BigonaBianchi]

Not wishing to be outdone I can report that I got an HND in Business studies, 3 A levels and 9 O levels...ballsed up the Architecture degree though..'gis a job Snapper eh