Re: British education system

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I thought as soon as I posted this " But the OU is different " - my dad had a

certain no. of credits for being a chartered secretary, and had to do 3 full

credits for his pass degree and another 2 for honours.

I'd forgotten about MBs as well - yes, I think those are pass degrees. At

Oxford you did your MB in 5 terms (or 4 or something) and then did a BA

(Hons) at the end of the 3 years.

And Joyce, there WAS a Rowena reading Physics at St. Hugh's in my time, but

I can't remember/never knew her surname. Quite brash, mousey fair shoulder

length hair, and I think she rowed?

And again, Jan, I banked at Lloyds, so wouldn't have met you!

Anneliese (part-time) SAHM to Baby Tim (18/9/99), member, Alton, Bordon and

district branch

Re: British education system

>Sorry, Helen, your statement about what an Honours degree is is just plain

>wrong! I can quote you counterexamples by the thousand! There are

>practically no courses that set out to give you a pass degree - if your

>degree isn't honours, it usually means that you did pretty badly!

I think Medical degrees are still 'pass' degrees in most places. And

I think art and design courses operate slightly differently to

others? And the OU until very recently (if it has changed - despite

having just got the undergraduate brochure, I haven't quite fathomed

it out) used to operate on the basis that you got your Pass degree

and then carried on for Honours (and you had to have enough 3rd or

4th level courses to get honours)

But it was because of the perception that if you didn't call it

Honours people would think it was of lower academic worth (both

course and your performance) that the course I did changed over to

Honours (they actually took some things *out* of the course - I still

have to compare notes with Emma on how much or how little similarity

there was between the 'same' degree we did 10 years apart)

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jennifer@...

Vaudin

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Brash, yes!

Re: British education system

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And Joyce, there WAS a Rowena reading Physics at St. Hugh's in my time, but

I can't remember/never knew her surname. Quite brash, mousey fair shoulder

length hair, and I think she rowed?

[Guest guest]

> And again, Jan, I banked at Lloyds, so wouldn't have met you!

I'm sorry if I bored you. I'm going no mail for the summer, so I

won't be doing it again.