Getting a Loan for a UK Student at a Spainsh Uni

drjones

£100k for a course in pseudoscience? Ouch.

paddyrg

Wowzer- 5 years for a non-medical course? If you have an interest in making people healthier, would it be better to actually get a medical degree, of which there are many excellent centres right here in the UK? Chiropractice is at best unproven, with some somewhat questionable ethics around vaccination, etc. I would take a step back and really think if it is worth spending 5 years followed by another 10 working off the debt for a non-medical qualification if you want to make people better.

http://www.dcscience.net/?p=526
http://chirobase.org/20PB/top7.html

Maybe the school you want to go to is a relatively straight one, but remember a lot of things employed under the name of chiropractice (magnets, light therapy, homoeopathy, applied kinesiology, etc) are at best unproven. How about physiotherapy which is much more widely recognised within the NHS as being effective without the flim-flam element?

Rob_Rav

pauletruth wrote: »

if you are an eu resident. then if its a proper degree course the course fees should be paid by the Spanish government. as we would pay for a spanish student here. in relation to maintenance why would you need that much. borrowing or spending a 100k for a course that you can get in the uk seems odd. no matter how much better it is can it be that much better.

Thanks, however it seems that the Spanish Gov't do not offer any loans or funding

Rob_Rav

pauletruth wrote: »

if you are an eu resident. then if its a proper degree course the course fees should be paid by the Spanish government. as we would pay for a spanish student here. in relation to maintenance why would you need that much. borrowing or spending a 100k for a course that you can get in the uk seems odd. no matter how much better it is can it be that much better.

paddyrg wrote: »

Wowzer- 5 years for a non-medical course? If you have an interest in making people healthier, would it be better to actually get a medical degree, of which there are many excellent centres right here in the UK? Chiropractice is at best unproven, with some somewhat questionable ethics around vaccination, etc. I would take a step back and really think if it is worth spending 5 years followed by another 10 working off the debt for a non-medical qualification if you want to make people better.

Maybe the school you want to go to is a relatively straight one, but remember a lot of things employed under the name of chiropractice (magnets, light therapy, homoeopathy, applied kinesiology, etc) are at best unproven. How about physiotherapy which is much more widely recognised within the NHS as being effective without the flim-flam element?

Thanks for your comments, and it seems that there are some pockets of people who do have these negative impressions of Chiropractic (as happens with any industry). However, as you can appreciate these are fed by experiences with some very average providers of education and subsequently practioners reinforcing these impressions. I feel that it is completely down to the individual practioner and the path they choose to excel. This college comes highly recommended and would allow practice outside of the National health system (unlike most Physios) which agruably has a lot of limitations in helping people (a whole wider debate). His orginal aim was to go Medical but he has just missed out on Grades. If the Spanish element is not a goer we have identified the highest quality Chiro colleges here of which there is only a couple. In my experience straight Chiro certainly seems to be more positively recognised than from the bad old days and he will also be able to carve a good work-life balance and make a differnce.

drjones

Pockets of people? That's true if "scientists" and " real doctors" are the that pockets you're referring to.

Chiropractic ranges from the downright wacky, as listed by paddyrg, to simply pretending to be a doctor and conning the gullible. You don't need to do a uni course in order to do this.

I'm sorry for the blunt response but I'm tired from a hard day of doing real science and genuinely believe anyone investing that amount of money in vague rubbish is being taken for the ride of their life. Equally if you were on here asking for a £50,000 loan for a 23rd-hand 1991 Ford Fiesta with no drivers seat and 1 wheel, I'd feel just as obligated to question the prudence of such a loan.