Why is it that going to University Costs so much.

whacks

Blacksheep1979 wrote: »

I'm guessing that maths wasn't a prerequisite - either that or you have a very advanced understanding of physics as 5 months with an average of 30 days per month is 150 days, only 5/7ths of them are 'working' days so that's only 107 days....

I guess this may go some way to explaining the state social services are in.

So when you write a CV and lets say you have worked for a company for 4 years you will not actually write length of service 4 years but instead work out the correct number of days?

maybe there are other work placements outside of social services maybe in charity fundraising schemes.

rather then being a !!! on a forum why don't you go find something useful to do with your time if such a thing is possible for a bitter little man/woman like yourself

Blacksheep1979

whacks wrote: »

So when you write a CV and lets say you have worked for a company for 4 years you will not actually write length of service 4 years but instead work out the correct number of days?

maybe there are other work placements outside of social services maybe in charity fundraising schemes.

rather then being a !!! on a forum why don't you go find something useful to do with your time if such a thing is possible for a bitter little man/woman like yourself

Pot, kettle? I also think that it was the person that I quoted that brought days into it (saying they needed 200) rather than months/years.... Now run along and learn to read.

squirrelchops

Blacksheep I actually meant that the total amount of placement days is 200 days. However, this is split into 2 lots of 100 days. In year 3, as I am now this lot of 100 days is usually within a statutory placement, hence am in the social services department. I used the example of 5 months within my original post to show that as part of the degree we have a large amount spent in practice which I consider a positive.

I knew someone would see the words 'social services' and make some innane remark about it but this isn't what the thread is about.

whacks

Blacksheep1979 wrote: »

Pot, kettle? I also think that it was the person that I quoted that brought days into it (saying they needed 200) rather than months/years.... Now run along and learn to read.

lets learn to read then shall we, as it seems you assumed that all 200 days were in one go and that he meant all of those 200 days were in the same 5 months. Basically you were trying to twist his words so you could insult him and his chosen profession.

Shall we go to basic english classes together...oh wait I never assumed that the 200 days was in one go.

The_One_Who

To be fair, the way the sentence is written it does appear to link the 200 days with the 5 months placement. That was the way I read it at first.

whacks

he did say placements, which would indiate more then 1 though.

MissPop

Jesus Christ, does it matter?!

Oldernotwiser

"work placements.....200 days over the course, which for example for me is spending 5 months working for social services, "

Whether spread over one or more placements, that certainly implies that 200 days equates to 5 months.

squirrelchops

LOL...I agree Miss Pop...it doesn't really matter!!! I will clarify for everyone henceforth!!!

GSCC states on the undergraduate degree course that 200 days are spent in placement.
Where I study this is done as 2 placements of 100 days each.
Hence I spent 100 days in year 2 at a voluntary agency but this second 100 day placement I am at social serivces.

Therefore what I should have said was I have spent 5 months out of the 200 days in a statutory setting!!!

Sorry for my poor method of getting across initally what I meant....it was a long post and I didn't mean to confuse the issue.

My real point was to demonstrate how, after another poster had said that degrees don't prepare you for the workplace was to show that the social work degree has a great deal of work experience attached.

FINALLY..........I am a SHE!!!! LOL

Blacksheep1979

whacks wrote: »

lets learn to read then shall we, as it seems you assumed that all 200 days were in one go and that he meant all of those 200 days were in the same 5 months. Basically you were trying to twist his words so you could insult him and his chosen profession.

Shall we go to basic english classes together...oh wait I never assumed that the 200 days was in one go.

Going off information given (rather than making assumptions like yourself) that's what it implied...