big reason for that is that there is a problem with distance learning and subjects requiring lab time... a couple of 1 week residential courses doesn't really cut it thus the hybrid solution - not much use for the OP though if he wants to be a physio... my suggestion was simply to speak to admissions tutors about possibly doing some OU modules with a view to entry on a physio course in a year.
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Cheers. I actually have an appointment with one at college tomorrow to discuss where I go from here. I'll bear that in mind. I don't want to stop learning however I have a house etc that I have to fund on my own so that will have to come first.
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Whoop - Letter of Commendation from Lancaster - that's one for the CV!
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Top marks! Looking forward to year 1 then? Do I sense another game dev mind in the force, or are you switching to CS later?
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Year 1?
Interactive Media Development isn't game dev, it's mainly web design/development with some video production/marketing/HCI/entrepreneurial stuff thrown in.
Going to do my Honours top up in IMD and then onto a PhD in Child Computer Interaction. I was going to do a Masters in Comp Sci but they've advised me it'd be a wasted year and not to bother and to progress straight to a PhD instead.
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My mistake, but Google came to the rescue. No worries. And that's true, if you can get on to a PhD programme, you'll get about 4 years of funding and an integrated masters (which would be an MPhil, if you drop out but complete enough work). If me and your guidance people are on the same wavelength, that is.
surely just depends on the program, some are 3 years and purely a thesis others (commonly at doctoral training centres) are 1 year of classes + 3 years thesis.
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It does depend. They are advising him to skip an MSc, which he was also looking at doing, so I figure the 4 year option is what they're offering. It's becoming more common these days, especially if he needs extra final year or postgrad modules.
I think he knows whether it is a 3 or 4 year course though so guessing then advising him based on a guess is a bit random... could just as easily be a 3 year course that could be pursued by the OP without the need for further post grad level taught courses - maybe because he's got relevant work experience or maybe because the field simply doesn't need it or they just don't have specific masters level courses that would be relevant.
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If his grades carry on like this, and he continues on to a PhD, he should get his run funded and the terminal qualification (both if he succeed or fails) remains the same, regardless of whether it's 3 or 4 years. No harm in a bit of encouragement after a job well done.
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I managed to get my Comp Sci Degree with distinction, so moving on to Honours next year! Looking forward to it but also looking forward to getting it all over and done with.
Also got funded again, bursary and loan, which makes continuing studying feasible!
Also got funded again, bursary and loan, which makes continuing studying feasible!
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They do an MSc in CCI and Comp Sci but due to my work experience and progress on current course they have recommended I just skip the MSc and proceed straight onto the PhD. They've said its typically a three year timeframe, but it can be up-to 6 years - it takes as long as it takes to get the work done essentially.
No harm in a bit of encouragement after a job well done.
Yeah, the letter was a nice surprise, esp as I got nominated for student of the year but missed out on winning it to a chap who beat cancer over Xmas. How can you compete against that? Damn my good health!
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Should be fun. Do you get to draft your own proposal, or is there a project you're looking to join?
I think you've got the better end of that stick, tbf.
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Should be fun. Do you get to draft your own proposal, or is there a project you're looking to join?
I think of you've got the better end of that stick, tbf.
Haven't really talked about it in that much depth atm. Got a couple if years to sort it out as I'm doing a pgce after my honours year then moving onto the PhD. Might also take a couple of years break from study after the pgce and just enjoy lecturing for a while before getting back into it.
And yeah, the other comment was with tongue firmly in cheek. I know the guy as well, he thoroughly deserved it and one of the nicest people you could ever meet.
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No idea, degree is a degree I thought? lol
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So call me cynical but I went to a jobs fair for carers the other week. Try to get some experience in a care environment (tried a few times but nothing).
Found a very interesting point I had stupidly overlooked (and no one advised me on) before embarking on this fantastical idea.
Everyone I went to had no jobs for males and explained women could work with men or women on own but a man working with a female service user had to have another female professional present, which defeats the whole idea of employing a man. Men do work in care but mostly in care homes where obviously female professionals are present.
This kind of thing would apply to healthcare in general which is why, in all my treatments and work shadowing, I have never seen a male worker in Physiotherapy, occupational therapy, nursing etc. The only males I've seen and know are in the operating theatre or porters etc.
We used to have one male OT/PT at my last workplace but they had to let him go due to cost.
That puts a different slant on it. It makes sense now. It explains why I never got an interview to any the first time around. I'm not Albert Einstein however I'll admit it disheartened me so only got 24 distinctions, 15 merits and 6 passes as I'd become so disillusioned by it all. No matter what I did I couldn't find a light at the end of a tunnel after a year trying. At least now this enlightenment might help.
Ah well, either my uni dream ends or I have to seek something in an operating theatre. A friend's an operating department practitioner so it's possible but just a bit harder. It's not discrimate, just completely obvious and I missed it.
Found a very interesting point I had stupidly overlooked (and no one advised me on) before embarking on this fantastical idea.
Everyone I went to had no jobs for males and explained women could work with men or women on own but a man working with a female service user had to have another female professional present, which defeats the whole idea of employing a man. Men do work in care but mostly in care homes where obviously female professionals are present.
This kind of thing would apply to healthcare in general which is why, in all my treatments and work shadowing, I have never seen a male worker in Physiotherapy, occupational therapy, nursing etc. The only males I've seen and know are in the operating theatre or porters etc.
We used to have one male OT/PT at my last workplace but they had to let him go due to cost.
That puts a different slant on it. It makes sense now. It explains why I never got an interview to any the first time around. I'm not Albert Einstein however I'll admit it disheartened me so only got 24 distinctions, 15 merits and 6 passes as I'd become so disillusioned by it all. No matter what I did I couldn't find a light at the end of a tunnel after a year trying. At least now this enlightenment might help.
Ah well, either my uni dream ends or I have to seek something in an operating theatre. A friend's an operating department practitioner so it's possible but just a bit harder. It's not discrimate, just completely obvious and I missed it.
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There are plenty of physios who are male and treat female patients on their own
I don't know, I was thinking about it after. I'm being cynical but it all makes sense in a financial sense. I'm a male and I've only ever met one male physio. I've spent long time and had lots of treatments in hospitals across a few towns. None bar one have been male. I'm starting to think something as simple as that may have an impact I'd never considered. I was the only male on the health course too and the only one not invited to interview. Maybe it's just i am not good enough but from my work shadowing (who were all female bar one) they said I was fantastic and gave really glowing reports however none of that matters if I can't get looked at.
I wasn't questioning whether that was the case, I was stating that's the case.
Physio courses are generally oversubscribed to which is why work experience/shadowing is so important, and allied health professionals may be made up of a higher percentage of women but you can't just take your own experiences as saying there are no men in them. Maybe you were applying to the more popular universities and competing against people with better credentials and experience than you?
I know plenty of male physios, you see lots of them at sporting events (as an example) so they do exist. I've seen you speak about being an occupational therapist which from my experience is even more female dominated.
Your gender has nothing to do with why you're not being invited for interviews, whether you get a job at the end of it in your chosen field really isn't a concern of the university, not to mention gender discimination laws.
Physio courses are generally oversubscribed to which is why work experience/shadowing is so important, and allied health professionals may be made up of a higher percentage of women but you can't just take your own experiences as saying there are no men in them. Maybe you were applying to the more popular universities and competing against people with better credentials and experience than you?
I know plenty of male physios, you see lots of them at sporting events (as an example) so they do exist. I've seen you speak about being an occupational therapist which from my experience is even more female dominated.
Your gender has nothing to do with why you're not being invited for interviews, whether you get a job at the end of it in your chosen field really isn't a concern of the university, not to mention gender discimination laws.