University

[Dr The Singh]

You do now

Thanks buddy!!!!

[Daggers]

I find people don't mind as long as you show a bit of consistency.

That's been the problem in every relationship, consistency.

That and stamina.

And size.

[General Smuts]

Sods i do Business at uni. Combined with IT.

Its a doddle matey. Builds on everything your learning at AS and A2. I reccomend a management based course as thats where the moneys at and if you can definately make it a sandwich course where you can take a year for placement.

[Stevosevic]

I love you.

Has anyone done business at Uni?

I'm doing Management Sciences at Loughborough. I would definetely recommend it.

It is a hard uni to get into as there are limited number of places and likely to need grades around ABB to get in, but it's links with business and the universities reputation are a big advantage.

If your going to do business, from any university, make sure you do a sandwich course with a placement year. Companies want people with experience, with a good level degree from a good university and a years work in a big organisation, it will give you a big advantage.

[The People's Hero]

That's been the problem in every relationship, consistency.

That and stamina.

And size.

And fidelity.

And sobriety.

[Flynny]

This topic's helpful and confusing in equal measure.

I'm just finishing off college now and I'll be straight off to Uni afterwards. I've applied to Bristol and Leicester, but if I stay in Leicester I'm living away from home anyway.

Whether to stay in Leicester or not is starting to eat at me a bit now. On the one hand it seems like the best of both worlds, living away from home, staying with old mates and keeping new, but whether it'd actually be like that is another matter altogether. This that LCF said is whats worrying me, pretty much:

I made my choice on as I was reluctant to move to far from where my friends live, Hinckley, but now feel as though I allowed it to hold me back. I was quite scared of losing touch with them, I'm 24, came to Higher Education late, and have had these friends for some time. I have of course made some new friends at uni, but haven't formed such a close attachment to them as I possibly would have if I had to throw myself in making friends more by being further away from home.

I don't want it to be like that if I stay about, and I'm worried that it would be. Bristol is a beautiful place and I've no qualms about going there, but its a touch expensive and the course isn't quite as suited to me as the one at Leicester. Deciding whether having old mates about is a good thing or a bad one its whats going to tip it one way or the other, I think.

Having relied on my basic intelligence to get me through the state school system with good grades without having to work very hard, I made the mistake of going to a good university where I was suddenly up against all these grammar school and privately educated kids that were used to working hard rather than just fluking their way through everything, and I just couldn't cut it. I went from being one of the top kids academically at school to being well below average - it didn't help that the course was SO boring, and bloody difficult as well. I ended up with an average qualification from a good university, and although I apparently got my first job because I was a graduate, I'm not convinced it actually made much difference.

That all sounds appallingly like me. Uh-oh. The other thing about not staying in Leicester is that Geology, which I'll be doing the degree in, really only interests me in fits and starts. Fortunately its a damn good thing to have a career in in terms of earnings and oppurtunities, but I really much prefer English. If after a year I decide to change to English, I'd really rather beg the Bristol English department, an incredibly good one, than the Leicester one.

Urgh I'm hopelessly stuck. Help me, Internet!

PS: I forgot to mention: I'll be having a new Baby Brother close to 19 years my junior in the next couple of weeks. Whether to take that into account I've not decided yet, either.

[Daggers]

I'm doing Management Sciences at Loughborough. I would definetely recommend it.

It is a hard uni to get into as there are limited number of places and likely to need grades around ABB to get in, but it's links with business and the universities reputation are a big advantage.

If your going to do business, from any university, make sure you do a sandwich course with a placement year. Companies want people with experience, with a good level degree from a good university and a years work in a big organisation, it will give you a big advantage.

They are quite keen on people who know the difference between your and you're too

[Bellend Sebastian]

I loves you all, pumpkinos!

The feeling is sort of mutual.

Give us a cuddle

[Stevosevic]

They are quite keen on people who know the difference between your and you're too

Pipe down, its exam period, i havn't got time to give advice!

[The People's Hero]

They are quite keen on people who know the difference between your and you're too

That's me, homeboy.

ps where's Elvis? He didn't drop in my Charlie.

[The Reverend]

That's been the problem in every relationship, consistency.

That and stamina.

And size.

Dear me Daggers, you do make me chuckle.

[Lord Nibblington]

That all sounds appallingly like me. Uh-oh. The other thing about not staying in Leicester is that Geology, which I'll be doing the degree in, really only interests me in fits and starts. Fortunately its a damn good thing to have a career in in terms of earnings and oppurtunities, but I really much prefer English. If after a year I decide to change to English, I'd really rather beg the Bristol English department, an incredibly good one, than the Leicester one.

I think you're doing a bit of disservice to the Leicester English Department there, it's generally pretty good. The Times rankings has Bristol 12th and Leicester 16th - make of that what you will.

But yeah. My missus did English at Leicester and it was generally pretty good.

[The People's Hero]

I think you're doing a bit of disservice to the Leicester English Department there, it's generally pretty good. The Times rankings has Bristol 12th and Leicester 16th - make of that what you will.

But yeah. My missus did English at Leicester and it was generally pretty good.

The English Department was rated even higher then Nibbles.

Hi, by the way, must come see you soon....

[Daggers]

That all sounds appallingly like me. Uh-oh. The other thing about not staying in Leicester is that Geology, which I'll be doing the degree in, really only interests me in fits and starts. Fortunately its a damn good thing to have a career in in terms of earnings and oppurtunities, but I really much prefer English. If after a year I decide to change to English, I'd really rather beg the Bristol English department, an incredibly good one, than the Leicester one.

Urgh I'm hopelessly stuck. Help me, Internet!

The bit about Uni being over-rated, that TommyG said, is where kids go in to do degrees they think will benefit them when they come out and nothing more apart from three years in a student bar & doing pub crawls. Schools and universities have worsened this situation, as has the increased amount of debt that students now have to bear. Drop out rates have continued to climb as uni's have been unable to cope with the increased demand leaving ex-students in debt and without a qualification that thought was important.

The thing to remember is that education doesn't finish at Uni, it's a lifelong process - whether formalised & traditional or vocational.

'Going local' doesn't mean you won't meet people - in fact, if this is one of your main concerns then I'm guessing from your online character you'll have no problems. Leicester pulls students from across the country who'll be up for more than the odd pub crawl or debate about Barry Hayles.

The degree has lost a load of its significance as a qualification - study at a place where you believe the quality of lecturing to be good, where they offer the level of support you desire and in a subject you find stimulating.

Degrees are all about transferable skills - unless going into a discrete area (the sciences, for example). One year conversion programs exist afterwards (like the M.Sc in IT) to develop a secondary specialism.

There is no correct answer for anyone - it's as Joe said, do you feels right for you. You may make the wrong choice, but it isn't the end of the world - there are still plenty of other wrong choices to be made between now and death

[Flynny]

I think you're doing a bit of disservice to the Leicester English Department there, it's generally pretty good. The Times rankings has Bristol 12th and Leicester 16th - make of that what you will.

But yeah. My missus did English at Leicester and it was generally pretty good.

Bristol that bad? Not what I'd heard. Christ I'm even more confused now.

[The People's Hero]

Go to Leicester. Do history. Write essays drunk, tired and at 4am on the morning of the deadline. Get a 2:1. Laud it over people doing other subjects.

Right Nibbles?

[Lord Nibblington]

The English Department was rated even higher then Nibbles.

Hi, by the way, must come see you soon....

Indeed you should.

We'll be coming down to the Stone for a week or so sometime in July. Before decamping to Casnewydd for wedding stuff.

Some kind of meeting shall beath arranged then too.

[Joe.]

I'm not sure how good the times rankings are to go by.

Surely some universities are good for some subjects but not others?

And just as an aide, I hear Bristol was good too.

[Lord Nibblington]

Go to Leicester. Do history. Write essays drunk, tired and at 4am on the morning of the deadline. Get a 2:1. Laud it over people doing other subjects.

Right Nibbles?

Damn Skippy.

Add to the lauding the mocking of watching others get up a 9:30 every day for their 2:2, whilst you have a 2 day week that is finished by 4:30 on a Thursday.

[Flynny]

There is no correct answer for anyone - it's as Joe said, do you feels right for you. You may make the wrong choice, but it isn't the end of the world - there are still plenty of other wrong choices to be made between now and death

Cheers for the advice, it's appriciated - I wish one actually felt right. The problem might actually be that both do.

[Lord Nibblington]

Bristol that bad? Not what I'd heard. Christ I'm even more confused now.

Each guide has it slightly differently.

As a whole, Bristol is a 'better' Uni; but some subjects are particularly strong in certain unis, and others not so strong.

But the whole idea of a better Uni is purely subjective. I've met people with the same degree as me from oxbridge; yet my knowledge and understanding of the subject is better than theirs.

[Daggers]

Cheers for the advice, it's appriciated - I wish one actually felt right. The problem might actually be that both do.

Both will be in different ways - but nothing beats the experience of being poor and isolated in a different part of the country, of being thrust into a freshers fair not knowing anyone and signing up for twenty seven activities that sound good but you never do. I think the independence of living away from home is a good thing to have experienced - and it makes the trips home in order to have your washing done/eat/borrow money/eat/see mates/eat more worthwhile.

Whichever you choose will be fun

[BigGibbo]

Only if the conception involves an abuse of American liquor and the finest Colombian as part of the build up. In fact, I think I have the makings of a pre-match plan for next season - it sure beats a cheese cob in the Swan.

Click on your name, top left...the section has been opened up again. I knows it all

Marching powder or cigar?

Nice I have no friends so I am currently accepting friend applications . . . Anyone?

[Daggers]

Marching powder or cigar?

Everyone knows that smoking is bad for your health.

[Fez of Mahrez]

Alright Flynny,

Uni is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to go and experience living somewhere else without having to do a lot to facilitate it. I'm sort of stuck where I am at the moment because I can't find any decent jobs in places where I would want to live and the whole simultaneous accommodation/job hunting freaks me out. I don't think the course you do is desperately important. The main thing uni will give you is a unique experience, a chance to live somewhere else without having to worry about finding a job and settling in because everyone's in the same boat at uni - and the best bit of all is friends from all over the country. You can go all over the shop and know someone who lives vaguely nearby.

Put it this way, if you're this torn about the decision it would be a lot easier to stay in Leicester obviously. But do you want to get a few months down the line and wish you were at Bristol, knowing you'd have to go to the bother of transferring and being behind everyone else? Or do you want to be in Bristol knowing you have family and friends to go back to if it doesn't work out.

Everyone is in their own unique situation obviously but I just felt the need to respond to you.