"Upgrading" a degree

nimbo

dizzyrascal wrote: »

I think you would cash in your first degree and use the credit towards a New qualification. The problem here would be that if the OU could take your former study they would also take your marks so I doubt that the degree grade would change by much.
You can't usually use credit from your study twice

I agree hence the madness = others disagree...

you can't un award a degree unless the university found you cheated etc.... so to do it you'd have to use the credit twice which is why I think it's impossible...

miduck

nimbo wrote: »

I agree hence the madness = others disagree...

you can't un award a degree unless the university found you cheated etc.... so to do it you'd have to use the credit twice which is why I think it's impossible...

Sorry so late to reply, but I emailed OU to get a definite answer, and you can indeed use credit from an awarded degree. To quote, "you can apply to transfer credit from your first degree up to a maximum of 240 credits, depending on the subject(s) you study".

JimmyTheWig

miduck wrote: »

Sorry so late to reply, but I emailed OU to get a definite answer, and you can indeed use credit from an awarded degree. To quote, "you can apply to transfer credit from your first degree up to a maximum of 240 credits, depending on the subject(s) you study".

I'm with the people who think this seems strange.

So you can do a three year degree, and get awarded for it, then transfer 2 of the years of that degree and get another degree in a year?
Could you carry on doing it, getting a degree every year?

miduck

JimmyTheWig wrote: »

I'm with the people who think this seems strange.

So you can do a three year degree, and get awarded for it, then transfer 2 of the years of that degree and get another degree in a year?
Could you carry on doing it, getting a degree every year?

I agree it is strange, but that is something to take up with OU. If you read the credit transfer guidelines on their website you'll see you cannot transfer the same content year after year.

CKhalvashi

JimmyTheWig wrote: »

I'm with the people who think this seems strange.

So you can do a three year degree, and get awarded for it, then transfer 2 of the years of that degree and get another degree in a year?
Could you carry on doing it, getting a degree every year?

I'd think that you can only use it once (although I studied in a foreign system)

I have a B.Sc, which took 4 years and then went on to study a Candidates degree (PhD equivalent), taking another 12 months; taking the two with more than a year apart will render the first invalid.

This is the Russian education system, but I'd think it's the same in the UK, although the entire course in Russia is 6 years now, instead of 5.

CK

JimmyTheWig

Something else to consider, OP, is if you have enough high-scoring modules to make this worthwhile.
I don't know how your degree was marked, but I know that with mine you were only allowed to fail two half-modules (out of 12 half-modules) per year to be able to pass the year / get your degree. Then the average score of all modules (excluding first year, iirc) was taken to find your final grade.
So my thinking is that to get a third you would need mainly third-scoring modules, as if you had many high-scoring ones you would have needed many others below a third (i.e. fail) to average at a third - in which case you wouldn't have passed the degree.
So it might take more than a few retaken modules to improve your grade. [Though, obviously, if you were near the 2:2 boundary it wouldn't be so difficult.]

Dunroamin

miduck wrote: »

Sorry so late to reply, but I emailed OU to get a definite answer, and you can indeed use credit from an awarded degree. To quote, "you can apply to transfer credit from your first degree up to a maximum of 240 credits, depending on the subject(s) you study".

Phew - I knew I'd had clients who'd done this. Thanks for checking.

Errata

Dunroamin wrote: »

Phew - I knew I'd had clients who'd done this. Thanks for checking.

That was also my understanding.