Qualification for completing two years of uni?

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I've recently been informed that I can get some sort of qualification for completing two years of uni and as its time to update the old CV and look for a new job I thought I could stick it on!

I did my first two years and passed, but due to several reasons did not pass my third year. I left uni without a degree and got a job as by that time I had lost the will to carry on at uni but just wanted to get out and work. I have no desire to go back to uni and do my third year as it has been several years since I finished. I've found out that for passing one year, I can get a certificate of higher education, but is there anything else for two years? Is it a foundation degree?

Cheers,
Andy
 
You might get a receipt, if you ask nicely...

Seriously, you'll probably get nothing. Some places will give you something or other, like a certificate of attendance, but it's probably pretty worthless I'm afraid.
 
vonhelmet said:
You might get a receipt, if you ask nicely...

Seriously, you'll probably get nothing. Some places will give you something or other, like a certificate of attendance, but it's probably pretty worthless I'm afraid.
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Just thought it looks better to put that on my CV rather than just have it listed under education but not have any grade from it..
 
Depends on the course I suspect. On the course I was on you did receive a qualification after the second year if you passed whether or not you went on. This was made clear from the start so we all knew about it. Not a full degree but an HND (Higher National Diploma). Whether that would actually be worth the paper it's written on is a different question.
 
In scotland if you quit after 3 years you get some kind of HND or Non-honours type degree with no gradings, provided you passed sufficiently.
It is completely worthless though as it shows you're a failure or lack perseverance.

Probably best just to say you went traveling or something. But if I was you I would head back to uni ASAP. Otherwise those 2 years will just be wasted
 
D.P. said:
In scotland if you quit after 3 years you get some kind of HND or Non-honours type degree with no gradings, provided you passed sufficiently.
It is completely worthless though as it shows you're a failure or lack perseverance.

Probably best just to say you went traveling or something. But if I was you I would head back to uni ASAP. Otherwise those 2 years will just be wasted
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Lying on your CV is far, far worse than not finishing Uni. You're better off putting the reasons for not finishing Uni. in the first place.
 
D.P. said:
It is completely worthless though as it shows you're a failure or lack perseverance.
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So because it wasn't all plain sailing for him and didn't work out made him a failure? Don't be so harsh.

He's far from it by the sounds of it.
 
D.P. said:
In scotland if you quit after 3 years you get some kind of HND or Non-honours type degree with no gradings, provided you passed sufficiently.
It is completely worthless though as it shows you're a failure or lack perseverance.

Probably best just to say you went traveling or something. But if I was you I would head back to uni ASAP. Otherwise those 2 years will just be wasted
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wrong

3yr degree = is a general degree.
4 yr degree = honours degree.

Both still undergraduate degrees and certainly not worthless if you only do 3 years.....
Plenty of classmates of mine did a 3 year degree and went onto do things like teaching and such. Why do 4 years if you're not planning on doing postgraduate work in the subject? Even if you have a non-honours degree you can still do PG work.

In saying all that though degrees are way overrated imo.

edit: OP you might get some kind of Diploma. Ask the uni where you studied?
 
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honours can depends on the uni.

At mine a honours is awarded if you complete the degree with resitting any years and without any gaps. So you do a 4 year degree in 4 years basically.
 
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