How edumacated are you?

[TheDoctor]

BSc with the OU. Took 5 years while working full time.
Since been back to the OU for a few short courses.

 

[Oldbloke]

Nothing academic whatsoever but somehow remained in gainful employment for 40 years, 25 in senior management.

 

[vickster]

BA Hons. Never had any great desire to study again after finishing my degree I might possibly do something once my mortgage is paid off and I can work part time or if it leads to a career change

 

[yello]

25m breaststroke... but I had to do a resit

I did my degree as a mature student out of interest. I was a computer programmer in an obscure language and, when looking for a job in a more mainstream language, I was advised that a degree would help. "In computer science?", I aked aghast at the thought. The thought of studying computers bored me rigid. Fortunately, any degree would do.... so I went and got a poxy, useless BA... and enjoyed it hooogely!

It crossed my mind to go further in academia but, in honesty, it's not for me. I lack the rigour/discipline.

 

[Tin Pot]

How do you measure education? I've passed 15+ exams since I left state education.

On another note;
It's amazing how many people still think a degree is a measure of intelligence and calibre.

 

[Saluki]

BSc & a BA but needed proper work and Archaeology doesn't pay.

 

[RedRider]

I always wanted to travel and learn another language so I took the train north for a couple of hundred miles to a Scottish university where I got a mediocre BA.
This was in the days of full grants and no tuition fees so a simple lad like me was able to expand his mind and party hard based purely on the ability to write an essay and look as if they knew what they were talking about in an exam.
I learned pissed Weegie and not to express an opinion on the Old Firm.
Good times that made me a better person but now I'm toying with the idea of doing a second degree with a more mature approach to the academic side if things.

 

[vernon]

[QUOTE 3752649, member: 259"]I'd be amazed if anyone thought of a degree as a measure of calibre.[/QUOTE]

There's no calibre large enough for my girth.

 

[Dayvo]

6 O-levels (2nd time around)
1 crap A-level
BA Hons 2:1
TEFL (never used)
C&G Bicycle Maintenance

But The University of Life saw me get the best education I could have wanted.

 

[Dayvo]

[QUOTE 3752649, member: 259"]I'd be amazed if anyone thought of a degree as a measure of calibre.[/QUOTE]

I'd be amazed if anyone thought Kaliber was worth drinking!

 

[cyberknight]

A levels then had to get a job as parents said they could not afford for me to go further, found i was over qualified or under qualified for what wanted to do.
Oddly enough though they could come out of retirement and work to put my younger brother through his degree and masters and now he has a doctorate in theoretical chemistry and lectures and at Lancaster uni

 

[vernon]

I'd much rather mention the plethora of science post doctorate qualifications accrued by my ex-students inspired be me to pursue science and technology qualifications to the highest level.

 

[jnrmczip]

I have went to college and completed an HNC and HND with top grades. To be brutally honest though I feel that was a waste of time and never bothered with uni. I think experiance e in a job role will always win over a bit of paper saying you can do it

 

[vernon]

[QUOTE 3752666, member: 259"]I can imagine they did much better once they'd moved on to a more inspiring teacher. [/QUOTE]

I can tell you it's quite intimidating teaching pre-A level kids who ask for help with surface vector calculus to enable them to calculate Planck time in a simulation programmed by them in C++

More than a few of them had me struggling to find stuff more challenging that A-level material to keep them occupied.

 

[nickyboy]

Plank time


aaaaanyway....A-levels. Then got a job. Then a few years later decided to do a correspondence course to qualify as an accountant and the rest, as they say, is history