Also, I have found my niche. I am a B-grade PGCE student and therefore a B-grade teacher. Despite my 1st class degree with prizes, MA with prizes and PhD, my technology-supported learning PGCE was deemed worthy of a B. Perhaps because I was 'creative', though the feedback objected to a lack of theory (there isn't any on blogging and pedagogy) and my use of the MHRA referencing system - which I used because Harvard's rubbish and I'm damned if I'm going to learn yet another one for a one-year course after struggling for years to get MHRA right for the MA and PhD theses.
Perhaps I'll sink even lower for the other assessments.
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Dankeschön.
Oh Jesus, if you are a B Grade then what hope do I have in two, three years time.
I shall find some rope and a nice cellar to spare the misery. Goodbye cruel world.
B Grade is good. Well done :)
Don't be so hard on yourself. How do you get to be a Dr? How long are your masters and PhD courses, how much do they cost also?
Thanks. I just happen to think that the PGCE isn't very challenging. They don't respect us and I don't respect them.
MA - one year full-time or 2 part-time (ahem). I had help with funding. MSc's are usually fully funded. You shouldn't get in with lower than a 2.1 though there are exceptions.
The PhD is a doctorate. Supposedly 3 years full time. Get a good BA, an MA and have a really clear idea of what you want to do - it has to be specific (mine is 'Constructions of Masculinity in three 1930s political Welsh novels in English'. I had a bursary and the fees were paid by the university too - they're impossible to fund privately unless you own Dorset. I do recommend them though.
Oooh very interesting. Shall have to keep working hard to get my first then ;)
Thanks for the reply! :)
'A really clear idea of what you want to do' ... Vole, you've got it in for me, do you?
Rope or bridge?
Anon - you don't need a first, but you should aim for one anyway.
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