Does it make parents look better' if their child goes to university?

Funky_Bold_Ribena

Norma_Desmond wrote: »

Of course they do

But pretty much anyone can go and sit in front of a Canaletto for an hour or paint a picture.........why a degree?

Is that what you think Art Therapy is?

pukkamum

Funky_Bold_Ribena wrote: »

You do not know for a fact unless you have actually completed or written the guidelines for every degree! You don't have one yourself but continually harp on about how easy they are. Sour grapes more like.

Oh and I'm pretty sure i can say with confidence that a medical degree is a hell of a lot harder than a media degree, if you can't work that one out then your degree is clearly not an example of intelligence.

Funky_Bold_Ribena

pukkamum wrote: »

And you know I don't have a degree how exactly?

Well, you speak about knowing people who went to uni. Presumably if you had done a degree you'd have been able to work out that you could use your own experiences to comment on this thread. Rather than other people's. Are you saying that you have got a degree?

Norma_Desmond

Funky_Bold_Ribena wrote: »

Is that what you think Art Therapy is?

I've no idea - I haven't studied it.

Funky_Bold_Ribena

Norma_Desmond wrote: »

I've no idea - I haven't studied it.

Evidently.

poet123

Funky_Bold_Ribena wrote: »

But very few are as simple as they are being made out. By people who haven't actually done one.

I am not sure how you know who has and who hasn't got a degree amongst the posters on here.

Nor did anyone say what you state.

The fact is that you can get on a Media degree course in certain places with 80 UCAS points, for Medicine the minimum is 240 at an average uni.

scooby088

Person_one wrote: »

Signing on is something you do while looking for a job. The clue is in the name of job seeker's allowance.

And that is for someone who hasn't even contributed anything to the system.

pukkamum

Funky_Bold_Ribena wrote: »

Well, you speak about knowing people who went to uni. Presumably if you had done a degree you'd have been able to work out that you could use your own experiences to comment on this thread. Rather than other people's. Are you saying that you have got a degree?

I do actually, I have a degree in child psychology, I put myself through it whilst working, I must confess to never having used it however it was damned hard work, a lot more work than my sisters media degree.
I refer to others experiences as I didn't go straight from college and I didn't partake in student life.
Having said that even if I didn't have a degree I'm pretty sure I could still state the obvious.

Funky_Bold_Ribena

pukkamum wrote: »

I do actually, I have a degree in child psychology, I put myself through it whilst working, I must confess to never having used it however it was damned hard work, a lot more work than my sisters media degree.
I refer to others experiences as I didn't go straight from college and I didn't partake in student life.
Having said that even if I didn't have a degree I'm pretty sure I could still state the obvious.

I think you should start using it then...and yes of course it was hard work. My other subjects were also psychology and English. But just because your sister did no work does not mean that everyone who does a media degree does no work.

Brighton_belle

Norma_Desmond wrote: »

But I'm sure pretty much anyone can be encouraged to go and sit in front of a Canaletto for an hour or paint a picture.........why a degree?

Art therapy training has been around for years and is very specialist training. It is usually a post grad 1 year diploma or M.A.

It can transform the lives of the sick and disabled and traumatised and is nothing like the 'image' you have in mind.