New Posts For Thread: Masters degreeshttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31509391/masters-degreesRealised the other dayThat it took five years of my life to get oneAnd at no time at any job interview afterI ever went for no one actually asked me about itWhat a fecking waste of timeThere's a photo of me in a reception areaWith an enlarged bog rolAbsolutely. Neither Ashleigh nor Pudsey benefited from higher education. One of them has A levels though.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31509391/masters-degrees?post_id=556754501#556754501Absolutely. Neither Ashleigh nor Pudsey benefited from higher education. One of them has A levels though.Sun, 03 Mar 2019 17:38:18 -0600More than 16X supremely talented when you consider the ones without formal qualifications but display their stellar talent on BGT and similar shows.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31509391/masters-degrees?post_id=556754475#556754475More than 16X supremely talented when you consider the ones without formal qualifications but display their stellar talent on BGT and similar shows.Sun, 03 Mar 2019 17:13:13 -0600And the great news is that the percentage of graduates receiving Firsts is not the only figure to have risen exponentially. The number of students themselves has risen almost as fast:The CIPD said that in 1979 around 12% of young people in the UK werhttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31509391/masters-degrees?post_id=556754447#556754447And the great news is that the percentage of graduates receiving Firsts is not the only figure to have risen exponentially. The number of students themselves has risen almost as fast:The CIPD said that in 1979 around 12% of young people in the UK werSun, 03 Mar 2019 17:06:00 -0600When I graduated in the late 90's, a First was a relative rarity. You might see one or two awarded per year, some years none at all. When I went back to the same institution twenty years later some 75% of students on the course I had taken were now bhttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31509391/masters-degrees?post_id=556751885#556751885When I graduated in the late 90's, a First was a relative rarity. You might see one or two awarded per year, some years none at all. When I went back to the same institution twenty years later some 75% of students on the course I had taken were now bSun, 03 Mar 2019 09:18:44 -0600Some great Masters debaters on this threadhttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31509391/masters-degrees?post_id=556751743#556751743Some great Masters debaters on this threadSun, 03 Mar 2019 08:46:30 -0600well I think it had been going on for quite a whilecertainly during celtic tiger yearsthe turnover of staff was horrendousyou would never know who was sitting in thedesk next to you in the staff room the students didnt care as long as they ended up whttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31509391/masters-degrees?post_id=556751115#556751115well I think it had been going on for quite a whilecertainly during celtic tiger yearsthe turnover of staff was horrendousyou would never know who was sitting in thedesk next to you in the staff room the students didnt care as long as they ended up wSun, 03 Mar 2019 05:51:43 -0600When do you think this practice started?Is it possible that when you were a student, or when you were at that age, students of that time were passing exams in a similar way?https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31509391/masters-degrees?post_id=556749759#556749759When do you think this practice started?Is it possible that when you were a student, or when you were at that age, students of that time were passing exams in a similar way?Sat, 02 Mar 2019 16:10:43 -0600I worked for 25 years as a HE lecturer at a college which ran courses in conjunction with two universities and I also lectured at a university. Qualifications were always checked before interviews and being appointed.Being semester based there were thttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31509391/masters-degrees?post_id=556749303#556749303I worked for 25 years as a HE lecturer at a college which ran courses in conjunction with two universities and I also lectured at a university. Qualifications were always checked before interviews and being appointed.Being semester based there were tSat, 02 Mar 2019 14:24:35 -0600I got a job as a lecturer on a degree course over here at a "BUSINESS SCHOOL", in theinterview I was never asked aboutmy M A or asked for the cert.The degree was awarded by a very prominent UK university.At the end of each year there was a meeting tohttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31509391/masters-degrees?post_id=556748831#556748831I got a job as a lecturer on a degree course over here at a "BUSINESS SCHOOL", in theinterview I was never asked aboutmy M A or asked for the cert.The degree was awarded by a very prominent UK university.At the end of each year there was a meeting toSat, 02 Mar 2019 12:54:12 -0600When I graduated (early 90s), looking at jobs in my field, virtually everything required an MSc. It was an easy decision just to avoid the real world for another year especially when tuition fees were free and a lot of MScs had an industry grant atthttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31509391/masters-degrees?post_id=556744843#556744843When I graduated (early 90s), looking at jobs in my field, virtually everything required an MSc. It was an easy decision just to avoid the real world for another year especially when tuition fees were free and a lot of MScs had an industry grant attFri, 01 Mar 2019 16:35:46 -0600