Just got my uni results...

[Fassa Albrecht]

...and I'm going to graduate this summer!


Got a 2.2 result, meaning I got the mark I was predicted (yaay!) and Í can now apply for my postgrad course now I have the results transcript.

*blows vuvuzela in celebration*

Good luck to anyone awaiting results, congrats to anyone graduating and have fun at any graduation ceremonies!

I'm now Fassa Albrecht, BA (Hons)!



EDIT: After all that I realized I'd spelt Albrecht wrong..

[XtreO]

Congrats Looking forward to getting there myself one day in the distant future.

[i_got_a_mohawk]

Congrats

What postgrad are you applying for?

Welcome to the world of more work and more debt.

[Phalex]

Well done.

[champbassist]

Originally Posted by Fassa Albrecht

Got a 2.2 result, meaning I got the mark I was predicted (yaay!)

Just curious, what's the grading system there?

(Please feel free to ignore)

[Fassa Albrecht]

Cheers guys!

Originally Posted by i_got_a_mohawk

Congrats

What postgrad are you applying for?

Welcome to the world of more work and more debt.

I'm applying for a teaching qualification, the PGCE.

Originally Posted by champbassist

Just curious, what's the grading system there?

(Please feel free to ignore)

Here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British...classification

It's better at explaining that I am.

[i_got_a_mohawk]

Originally Posted by champbassist

Just curious, what's the grading system there?

(Please feel free to ignore)

First Class (1)
Upper Second Class (2:1)
Lower Second Class (2:2)
Third Class (3)


First being the highest, Third being the lowest.

If you fail to get a Third class degree, you usually get an Ordinary degree. So it would be a BA or a BSc, not a BA (hons) or BSc (hons).

[Fassa Albrecht]

Originally Posted by i_got_a_mohawk

First Class (1)
Upper Second Class (2:1)
Lower Second Class (2:2)
Third Class (3)


First being the highest, Third being the lowest.

If you fail to get a Third class degree, you usually get an Ordinary degree. So it would be a BA or a BSc, not a BA (hons) or BSc (hons).

This. Although how anyone doesn't get at least a Third is beyond me, the marks are low enough.

[i_got_a_mohawk]

Originally Posted by Fassa Albrecht

I'm applying for a teaching qualification, the PGCE.

Sorry to sound like an absolute dick, but have you done much research before applying for that?

Granted, as long as you pass, you'll get your one year guaranteed position. But after that, you are on your own. Most of the guaranteed positions are saved specifically for that one year, so there are very few people who get to stay on at the first school. And when you are out there, there are hundreds and hundreds of qualified teachers who don't have a job.

It's been a bit of a knock on, because so many degree based job markets are full, people moved to do teaching, and that market is completelly saturated. There may be a few teaching fields where that isn't the case, but for the most part, you're out of luck

(I know quite a few people with teaching qualifications who are having a nightmare trying to get work)

However, if you are considering moving abroad, I think there are more options that way (depending on where you go of course), tho you may have to do more accreditation!

[i_got_a_mohawk]

Originally Posted by Fassa Albrecht

This. Although how anyone doesn't get at least a Third is beyond me, the marks are low enough.

At my UG uni it didn't quite work out in the way that wiki article says. It wasn't just a percentage. If you failed one piece of coursework, even if it was only 1.5% (and we had quite a few 2,500 essays which were only worth that) then you couldn't get higher than a 2:2. If you failed 25% or more, you couldn't get higher than a third and considering the honours project was worth 25% (tho granted, I don't think anyone failed that).

People who walk away with an ordinary or lower have either had something major happen in their life outside uni, or are just bums!

[Fassa Albrecht]

Originally Posted by i_got_a_mohawk

Sorry to sound like an absolute dick, but have you done much research before applying for that?

Granted, as long as you pass, you'll get your one year guaranteed position. But after that, you are on your own. Most of the guaranteed positions are saved specifically for that one year, so there are very few people who get to stay on at the first school. And when you are out there, there are hundreds and hundreds of qualified teachers who don't have a job.

It's been a bit of a knock on, because so many degree based job markets are full, people moved to do teaching, and that market is completelly saturated. There may be a few teaching fields where that isn't the case, but for the most part, you're out of luck

(I know quite a few people with teaching qualifications who are having a nightmare trying to get work)

However, if you are considering moving abroad, I think there are more options that way (depending on where you go of course), tho you may have to do more accreditation!

I've been reliably told that the PGCE is a pretty transferable qualification to have. I was talking to a family friend who did PGCE and who ended up in human resources doing staff training. Teaching is the obvious thing to do with this kind of qualification but there's more to it than that.

Plus, with me wanting to teach Classics, I have an advantage in that this is one of the few fields where demand outstrips the number of actual teachers at a ratio of 1:3. OK, it's not taught in that many schools apart from private, but that's kinda a good thing in some ways.

Plus I'd love to move abroad permanently at some point...so I may decide to do TEFL.

[Fassa Albrecht]

Originally Posted by i_got_a_mohawk

At my UG uni it didn't quite work out in the way that wiki article says. It wasn't just a percentage. If you failed one piece of coursework, even if it was only 1.5% (and we had quite a few 2,500 essays which were only worth that) then you couldn't get higher than a 2:2. If you failed 25% or more, you couldn't get higher than a third and considering the honours project was worth 25% (tho granted, I don't think anyone failed that).

People who walk away with an ordinary or lower have either had something major happen in their life outside uni, or are just bums!

With my uni, it was just a average of the two years that counted (although the third year was worth 2/3 of the mark and the second year 1/3).

The only degrees here that don't follow that system are medicine and dentistry, which are pretty much on their own system.

[i_got_a_mohawk]

Up here it does vary a bit from course to course and uni to uni. My degree grade was soley determined by my final year, where-as friends at the same uni, doing a different course had it split over the final two years.

The overall percentage thing was the same at my UG uni as the wiki article said, they just added extra criteria ontop of the percentage.


Fair shout re-the teaching qualification. A lot of people just don't seem to realise how hard that job market it right now. And practically any post-grad qualification is transferable.

[EBodious]

Originally Posted by Fassa Albrecht

Plus, with me wanting to teach Classics, I have an advantage in that this is one of the few fields where demand outstrips the number of actual teachers at a ratio of 1:3. OK, it's not taught in that many schools apart from private, but that's kinda a good thing in some ways.
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wow, you wanna teach classics?! and there are people who still wanna learn that!?! amazing. i am not sure that folks in the u.s. even know what the "classics" are anymore.....

[basste]

[Fassa Albrecht]

Originally Posted by EBodious

wow, you wanna teach classics?! and there are people who still wanna learn that!?! amazing. i am not sure that folks in the u.s. even know what the "classics" are anymore.....

It's enjoying something of a revival here. There's even a course called Minimus (Little Mouse) to teach primary school kids Latin.

Although the majority of the jobs are in private schools who can do pretty much what they want and teach whatever they want.

[hrodbert696]

Huzzah for classics! Congrats, Fassa.