Useless degrees

A 3rd in Aerospace Engineering... Now that's a useless degree. I'm basically unemployable in my field, I might as well say I don't have a degree.

MA in Culture Studies (Film and Media). Useless, as long as you don't want to be a film critic or academic.

This thread has ruined my faith in the British education system.

...and I'm a postgrad in philosophy.

i just did a BSc in product design, dunno what mark i'll get,

i don't even work in product design, i work in PR and Press

@ no-one in particular

it's not that the degree is useless, it's just how you use it / how lucky you get !

Well done David. Doing a Masters part time whilst holding down a full time job is a considerable achievement.

Doing it whilst holding down this forum was the real achievement. Work was just a laugh.

I totally am kicking myself for not trying harder in year 1 though. I averaged 62% on most things which is a merit... but this year I've averaged 90% on most things which is distinction... however more points were in year 1 so I'm on the whole averaging 68%... 2% shy of distinction.

I never wanted distinction, I didn't revise or try in year 1... just bumbled along using coursework to help highlight what I didn't know so that I could use it to guide my learning. But knowing I'm 2% shy is making me approach the project slightly differently, but to get 78% on the project (required to bump the avg high enough for a 71% overall average) is going to be hard work.

It's also useless... I'm already at the top of my profession. Oh well.

It's like me. Can't progress anymore as a househusband.

I"m really excited about starting my useless "degree".

I'm getting a post grad diploma in fine art, which means nothing, but the good news is I get to draw for a year.

good luck david and nhatt.

I just passed my first year in Sound Design Technology. An all round fairly useless degree for doing anything but sound engineering. However, I've got an internship lined up at channel 4 for the summer so it can't be all that bad so far...

Just my dissertation to do now for my MA English Literature, averaging 60% at the mo so my thesis needs to pull it up a bit. Art degrees are the best.

I"m really excited about starting my useless "degree".

I'm getting a post grad diploma in fine art, which means nothing, but the good news is I get to draw for a year.

And you will most likely pick up new skills, make new friends, broaden some horizons, perhaps become more confident, find a new direction. None of that is useless. (I know that you know that, but I just don't like the myth perpetuated, even in jest, that unless a degree is directly related to future employment, it's 'useless'. But that has, I think, all been debated upthread.)

Oh, my useless degree allowed me to pick up work in many different environments and professions.
Universities in general teach us how to learn, so most of my skills are self-taught.
If I want to know something new, I read about it. Once you pick up the lingo, you can fit in.

Does anyone think it would be worth Mal getting a degree in something? Is it expensive to get a degree over here? What's the cost per year like? I'm just thinking she could do some part time work whilst studying something/anything to improve her CV so when hiring starts again she has more chance.

Sure it's always worth to further your education.

As for the costs and details, you'd have to ask a recent graduate or student.

Does anyone think it would be worth Mal getting a degree in something? Is it expensive to get a degree over here? What's the cost per year like? I'm just thinking she could do some part time work whilst studying something/anything to improve her CV so when hiring starts again she has more chance.

If the EU still pays students' fees for EU students, it may be possible financially, but I studied so long ago that I don't know what's happened about top-up fees (yes, I still call them that) in that regard. Otherwise, it would be a pretty tough financial proposition. About £10k in top-up fees for three years?

And there's also the requirement of IELTS pass for foreign students. If she's been here for long, I wouldn't admit that I'm foreign at all if I was her.

hippy, my advice to anyone is find the job/area you want to work in, and what is the best way to get into it. It may not be studying a degree, it might be other studying, training or volunteering

I am having to self-fund my way into a new career by paying a private company for week-long training modules in sheffield, yay

Problem is she doesn't know what she wants to do (I've been through it with her 1000 times).
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EEI, could she get away with skipping IELTS? She's only been here for 5 years but her English is pretty good.

EEI, could she get away with skipping IELTS? She's only been here for 5 years but her English is pretty good.

So she's an UK resident, innit?

Yeah, we haz much residentialness.

85 degrees

not quite a right angle but too close to being a right angle to be useful for anything else

Yeah, we haz much residentialness.

With English like that, you wouldn't pass the IELTS. Really.

Nobody would. There's some grammar involved apparently.

i do book arts.