Additional FREE training to fill gap on CV?

DVardysShadow

bristol_pilot wrote: »

Don't do adult literacy and numeracy exams, these will simply destroy your credibility as a graduate. These qualifications show you up as NOT very literate and numerate, if you see what I mean - analogous to presenting a 'certificate of sanity' issued by an assylum.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: Yes, an apt turn of phrase which captures exactly what I was struggling to express.

BTW how can anyone get a first class hons in computing with weak Maths? When I was student you couldn't get onto any degree course anywhere in any subject without a B grade min in both Maths and English and with Maths A-level for computing and the like.

If you look at OP's qualifications, you will see that he did not get there via A levels but through a computing route - where the need for maths would have been overlooked initially and later the computing itself would be taken as direct evidence of the skill required.

Bear in mind that math is not a direct prerequisite of computing - it is in fact an indirect indicator of the right kind of skills. Also, from about A level, math can be divided into continuum and discrete branches. It is the discrete branch which is relevant to computing, but [open to correction] schools and A levels major very heavily on the continuum branch.

PasturesNew

OP, have you checked out the W3C free courses? I expect you've covered a lot of that stuff during your other studies, but it's worthwhile checking out you're up to date with xml etc etc et al.

Also, something I was looking into earlier this week (of no use whatsoever except it's vaguely interesting) is what you can do with the Y! QL and Pipes. If you're doing asp.net then sometimes these nifty QLs can solve simple problems at the client end.

Links: http://www.w3schools.com and http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/

Good luck!

Robtyketto

PasturesNew wrote: »

OP, have you checked out the W3C free courses? I expect you've covered a lot of that stuff during your other studies, but it's worthwhile checking out you're up to date with xml etc etc et al.

Also, something I was looking into earlier this week (of no use whatsoever except it's vaguely interesting) is what you can do with the Y! QL and Pipes. If you're doing asp.net then sometimes these nifty QLs can solve simple problems at the client end.

Links: http://www.w3schools.com and http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/

Good luck!

Thanks, used w3schools extensively at uni, college and when I prepare for interviews.

All these replies and still unsure, Its niggling me I haven't got grades C or above in GCSE English or maths.

My English and Math is at a good level but like the degree would be nice to have a piece of paper to make myself feel better to prove myself I can do it :-)

It's either the much quicker adult English and numeracy courses or the considerably longer and more expensive GCSE studies.

PasturesNew

An alternative might be to get some Open University English/Maths grades of equivalent value. They'd be more dignified on your CV.

Those adult literacy etc courses are really aimed at people who left school unable to read/write, or who haven't worked for 20 years or so. They'd really devalue your CV I think.

If you're not working, you'll probably get the OU courses funded too.

Check out their under-graduate offerings. e.g. see their Y162 for Maths http://www3.open.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/mathematics-and-statistics/mathematics/index.htm and something in English http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=2708 or http://www.open.ac.uk/skillsforstudy/english-for-learning.php

Robtyketto

PasturesNew wrote: »

An alternative might be to get some Open University English/Maths grades of equivalent value. They'd be more dignified on your CV.

Those adult literacy etc courses are really aimed at people who left school unable to read/write, or who haven't worked for 20 years or so. They'd really devalue your CV I think.

If you're not working, you'll probably get the OU courses funded too.

Check out their under-graduate offerings. e.g. see their Y162 for Maths http://www3.open.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/mathematics-and-statistics/mathematics/index.htm and something in English http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=2708 or http://www.open.ac.uk/skillsforstudy/english-for-learning.php

Well I'm not entitled to any funding for open university using the online eligibility checker.

So it's either GCSE's which I could do at local college in September in the evening over 33 weeks, adult numeracy and maths courses which seem to get a bad rep though are marketed as GCSE equivalent type qualifications and could I think be done online or OU courses.

I will sleep on it

PasturesNew

Robtyketto wrote: »

Well I'm not entitled to any funding for open university using the online eligibility checker.

You're probably like me ... always fall through the cracks in all the rules.

You could just go to the beach and forget it. Chill out, lie on the sand and dream up fabulous masterplans.

heretolearn_2

It's not that the adult literacy and numeracy courses have a bad rep - they are fab for people they are intended for (as I said, my son did them) but they are a flag that this person has a learning disability of some type (dyslexia in my son's case). They really do start at the level of people who are virtually unable to write their own name. They learn about how to fill in forms. They are for people reading at primary school level, if at all, for example. I just think it would look ludicrous and devalue the CV of a graduate. To be honest, as an employer I'd wonder how the hell you got a degree if you'd had to go and do remedial English and Maths afterwards, it would make me very suspicious.

Kate78

Since you already have a degree, the likelihood of getting funding for a qualification for a lower level (GCSEs) is very slim indeed.

And echo what the other posters said about literacy and numeracy qualifications - as a graduate, they would look a bit out of place on your CV.