Tuition fees- Value for money?

studentphil

It is more than possible to get a Masters without first having a bachelor if you have lots of experience. A lost of universities seem to be going to this transcript system where you put on all your volunteering, sports, electives, medals, prizes and so on that you have got outside your degree to show all this value their students are getting from the university experience.

moneysaver12

i though that the tutors at uni where there to teach you not just for research. I should be going to uni in two years but am looking at doing the same course with the final year at uni at my college which would be about 800 pounds a year, which is a big difference between that and 3 thousand a year. You get the same degree

PasturesNew

welf_man wrote: »

A University took you on to a postgraduate course without a degree??? Do you have alternative qualifications? I've never heard of this before so woul be interested to know a bit more.

Mel.

They do this if you have relevant industry experience.

I've spent 20 years in IT and 10 years in Project Management.
I am a Prince2 Practitioner (qualified)

Masters includes project management, change management and er ... other stuff.

PasturesNew

DrFluffy wrote: »

You're assuming the poster doesn't have a first degree already...

I don't. I left school with 2 O levels, and have since gained 1 A level and 160 CAT points with the OU 10 years ago, in programming, databasing, data modelling and web applications development.

PasturesNew

melancholly wrote: »

you just need lots of experience (and lots of money usually, if you're not being sponsored!).

To be honest, I never asked how much it would be. I expect I'll find out when I check my bank statement. I figured c'est la vie - and you don't get important things for nothing.

Whatever the cost, it's an investment, not a cost.

surfsister

studentphil wrote: »

It is more than possible to get a Masters without first having a bachelor if you have lots of experience. A lost of universities seem to be going to this transcript system where you put on all your volunteering, sports, electives, medals, prizes and so on that you have got outside your degree to show all this value their students are getting from the university experience.

yes true my oh is doing a masters in electronics as lots of on job experience but it's very heavy going as 'We all know this don't we?'
No!

But it is a quick way to qualify.

surfsister

welf_man wrote: »

I work at York SU! What course is she applying for?

Mel.

History and have heard it's excellent! Any info would be useful. Also what's the best acomodation to go for? etc

thanks

Dogma_I

I am doing Law and my 'contact' hours (lectures and seminars) are 11 hours per week.

Interesting that a seminar leader I had last year indicated that seminar groups are becoming bigger and less often (commonly once a fortnight) and as such are becoming more like 'classes'. The effect of this is deterioration in the quality of student work.

The_One_Who

moneysaver12 wrote: »

i though that the tutors at uni where there to teach you not just for research.

No, they're there to do research primarily. Most universities will utilise their postgraduate students for tutors, and to be honest the majority are only doing it because they are getting paid.

ceewash

speranza wrote: »

I started uni in September and already I'm feeling quite disillusioned with the whole experience, to the point where I've decided to withdraw from my course. I'm at a very reputable top-10 university which is also quite small and makes a point of advertising its student support services.

Since I was aware I might get homesick (uni is in England, I'm from N.Ireland so couldn't just pop home at the weekends) and have had depression before, I chose this uni over a London one, even though the London one is better. I found the first few weeks horrible, didn't make friends easily and found a lot of snobbery which I was not expecting.

Eventually I asked if I could see a counsellor and was told they were very busy, which I suppose I could understand. Then I emailed the Chaplaincy as they were apparently running homesickness groups but they never replied. At that point my confidence was so low I just didn't bother trying to contact anyone else.

I went home for my reading week and ended up staying home for almost three weeks. I'm in a relatively small department which has quite a few seminars (the ones I've been to at the start took a register) although actual teaching time is quite low at around 10 hours/week and no one ever contacted me to see where I was. My own personal tutor has never contacted me.

Now I barely leave my room, have stopped going to lectures and lost 7lbs because I feel ill all the time and can't eat. It's a complete mess and I feel like a total failure. But I *did* try to ask for help and it just wasn't there so I can't be entirely to blame. Am now hoping to go to a uni closer to home next year so I haven't been totally put off by higher education but I do agree the things students are now paying for are really not being delivered.

As a parent this is just the sort of situation i worry about. My son is on his own most of the weekends because everyone goes home and after Christmas they have one exam and then the rest of January off. His flat mates have already said they will all be going home. This is not a very healthy situation. I just feel we are being misled by the university system.