Education in the US

Mott the Hoople said:
That was the case with my BA. I took all the exact same classes as those who earned BS degrees in my major plus I took 20 extra hours in liberal arts classes. I can't say it was harder then earning the BS it's just that I took 20 credits hours more liberal arts classes and my academic advisor told me I would be better off applying for a BA then a BS since I had done the extra work anyways. So I did.
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Do you have honours and ordinary degree classifications in the US, I suspect that your equivalent is BSc and BA? Am I right?
 
Superfreak said:
True... I was way too vague on number 4. I personally think tenure after ten years is fair, provided the 'tenure' makes it really hard, but not impossible to fire a teacher should performance decline after tenure is granted.

That said, I think most people are on the same page with reform, but the animosity from both sides has risen to the point that everyone just assumes everyone else is 'stark raving mad' and thus begins arguing just for the sake of arguing. (I throw my former self into that camp as well.... just trying to turn a new page)
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I hear ya cuz. The politicians want to polarize us. Makes it easier for them to manipulate us.
 
tom prendergast said:
Well that's it then, I gained a BA (Hons) 2:2 degree in pure chemistry. I probably could have got a 2:1 but I liked drinking and fornicating too much.
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We use a 4 pt system here. 3.4 is considered honors and above that high honors. I was around a 3.0. Not bad but not great. I too liked beer and fornicating. LOL 2.0 is considered minimum average you need to maintain to stay enrolled.
 
Mott the Hoople said:
We use a 4 pt system here. 3.4 is considered honors and above that high honors. I was around a 3.0. Not bad but not great. I too liked beer and fornicating. LOL 2.0 is considered minimum average you need to maintain to stay enrolled.
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My oldest son who used to struggle with dyslexia, screwed up his exams as school and went to work for a couple years before going to uni. He is now on course for a first in Software Engineering, he must be a late developer.
 
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tom prendergast said:
I work for a multinational mobile phone company as a senior datacomms engineer, mainly working with Cisco, Nortel, Juniper and Huawei switches/routers.
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You're not an engineer. If you claimed that here in North Carolina you'd be guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor under General Statute 89C Section 23. Don't you have professional licensing laws in Great Britain? Perhaps you aren't aware of them. :)
 
tom prendergast said:
My oldest son who used to struggle with dyslexia, screwed up his exams as school and went to work for a couple years before going to uni. He is now on course for a first in Software Engineering, he must be a late developer.
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Intelligence runs in the family. My son graduated high school as an AP scholar, starting college with 39 credits. :)
 
Put me in charge of fixing the system. Take 2 to 4 years to show some results. But you'd have to keep some folks off my back.
 
leaningright said:
Put me in charge of fixing the system. Take 2 to 4 years to show some results. But you'd have to keep some folks off my back.
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I can do it in half the time.... provided the country gives me a Congress that will enact the proper plan.

I will cut our budget while maintaining current services. There will be pain that goes along with the change in the short term. But the long term health of our country will benefit greatly.
 
Damn Yankee said:
Oh look, Tom, you don't even qualify for the lowest level of engineering title approved by the Engineering Council of the UK. http://www.engc.org.uk/professional...ering-technician/about-engineering-technician

Yet you call yourself an engineer. Isn't that illegal? :)
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That's my job title, if you don't like it then too fucking bad. You gave up on my degree classification when you realised that you hadn't a clue what you were talking about, so now you've changed tack. Don't you ever tire of showing people how dozy you are?
 
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