Help please, son unhappy at uni Almost NB.

Re: Don\'t Be

I have had 2 sons at uni and now my daughter is in the middle of her 2nd year.
I was starting to look forward to a fee free life til yesterday.
She came to the Boat for lunch and told me she wants to do a masters after her degree.
"Fabulous Darling", I mutter through gritted teeth ,
F... it, proud as well though,

PhilF

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Re: Old lecherer!

Delighted not to have let you down! Hope the weekend meeting went well.

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Claymore
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Re: Don\'t Be

Know how you feel. No. 1 son doesn't know whether to accept the offer of a 1yrs Masters at L.S.E. or a 2yr one ( with 25% funding ) at UCLA - campus in Beverly Hills. I know which one I'd want to go to and it's nowhere near Marble Arch. He thinks the LSE qualification will be more highly regarded than the UCLA one. How horribly sensible is that /forums/images/icons/shocked.gif.

Either will be bleedin expensive anyway./forums/images/icons/mad.gif

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Re: I\'m staggered!

I didn't see your question in time to reply before you met up with your son. My son did a M.Eng in electronics at York, my daughter is in the third and final year of a Psychology degree at Plymouth.

My thoughts are:

1 They must be happy and doing the course of their own choice

2 Get a University degree if at all possible. I sorely remember being told after a staff appraisal that I could not be "marked" above a certain level because I did not have a university degree, despite the fact that I have a professional qualification equivalent to a degree.

3 There dosn't seem to be much of a social life for students at Plymouth, certainly nothing even vaguely like that which my son enjoyed at York. So if that is a problem then think about going elsewhere. York really was a great place and the students were well cared for. I think he was very lucky to get a place there.

4 The other students one has to share facilities with in halls of residence can be a factor. My daughter certainly drew the short straw on that one. If that is a problem ask to be moved. In contrast my son shared rented houses in subsequent years with the same crowd. He now lives and works in York still sharing a flat with one of them.

5 Gap years are almost universally recommended, but for the less studious it can be difficult getting back into 'study mode' afterwards it can also drag things out rather. My son took a gap year then did a four year course then spent best part of another year on a trip to Alaska, Canada, N.Z. and Oz (and an unscheduled week trapped in L.A. after 9/11). I was beginning to wonder whether he was aiming to go straight on to OAP!

6 It is essential that parents can spell the name of the subject so try to avoid things with a silent 'p'. ( Before any one else jumps in I am not saying don't go to Bath!)

I don't think I've said very much new but I couldn't resist adding my penny worth. I hope you manage to sort something out.

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Re: Don\'t Be

They do say that American degrees are slightly lower in standard than over here, I dont know fully but I studied for a short while at California State University, the downmarket university, and their 1st year and a half of degree was what we had been already learning at A level. Lovely place to study though.

kevin
 
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