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University Admissions - I'm willing to answer any questions!

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MrsBright · 18/04/2015 08:53

I have worked in Uni Admissions at several different Unis, RG and non-RG, for over 20 years and am very happy to answer any general questions about UCAS/Offers/F&I Decisions/Clearing/Adjustment etc.

OP posts:
Needmoresleep · 27/04/2015 14:34

You are not doomed. Your children are.

Littleham · 27/04/2015 14:42

Ha ha. If all else fails they can busk. Grin

titchy · 27/04/2015 14:47

Or marry and investment banker!

Littleham · 27/04/2015 14:51

Three daughters too Hmm

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife

Needmoresleep · 27/04/2015 15:03

An important question then. Which University and course is best for finding a rich husband? Littleham, I dare you to start a thread.

A Cambridge grad friend says she thinks she is the only one out of her friendship group who works. The rest don't need to. She instead managed to marry an unreliable rat, who is now on his fourth marriage.

Perhaps Oxford should ditch the MAT, HAT etc and test girls on homemaking skills. Obviously those who already know their way round Lidl should be ruled out.

Littleham · 27/04/2015 15:09

I would be taken apart, thrown to the wolves Needmore. Would very much enjoy reading it though. We need some light hearted entertainment to see us through the exams.

I'm pretty sure that dd1 is surrounded by girls (doing languages).

titchy · 27/04/2015 15:17

Oxford, Cambridge or St Andrews!

SometimesTables · 27/04/2015 15:24

I seem to remember reading that the parents of 'History of Art' students are the richest by quite some margin. Smile

Surely all this fussing about girls is misplaced. It is the boys we should be worried about. 32,000 more females started uni last year than males. Confused

UptheChimney · 27/04/2015 16:18

32,000 more females started uni last year than males

Well, let's give it a couple of hundred years to see if things are really skewed against the boys, or that maybe it's just that, well, um, girls are cleverer than boys. Their female brains are just better for studying, because their weaker bodies mean they can't do all the physical hard labour that boys can do.

jeanne16 · 27/04/2015 16:30

Actually since girls are now out performing boys, us mothers of sons will be on the lookout for high earning wives who can support our sons in the manner to which they have become accustomed!

UptheChimney · 27/04/2015 16:33
Grin

My son & I have had that conversation ...

JeanneDeMontbaston · 27/04/2015 16:48

Girls aren't out-performing boys, though.

They are getting higher results in exams at school, but at university there are still places where boys get more firsts than girls, and the further on you go (both in jobs, where men out-earn women, and further up academia - since we're talking about education - where men dominate the senior positions).

I was really shocked the other day to find out these two statistics: since 1930, at least 23% of undergraduates have been women (obviously, much more lately!).

But, even today, fewer than 23% of university professors (ie., the top level of people researching/teaching students) are women.

It's a shock to realize that despite the numbers of women going into HE, they don't stay.

LotusLight · 27/04/2015 17:13

Yes, they tend to marry men who earn more and give up work. Women rarely marry low earners with women staying as main breadwinners.

Would anyone want my very domesticated son who cooks dinner every night for the family and collects his brothers from school fitted around his post office job? I really don't think those skills are a catch for most women even today.

UptheChimney · 27/04/2015 17:17

Agreed Jeanne and my post on what we should was in case anyone didn't get it a satire ... feeding back what has been said about women's education for the last couple of hundred years.

Funny how that's how long it took for some re-thinking of education, but when it looks like young women might just almost out-perform young men, there's suddenly a crisis Wink

SometimesTables · 27/04/2015 17:36

Here are the HESA 2013/14 statistics for student numbers in higher education. Males and females are awarded a similar percentage of first class degrees but more females get seconds (upper and lower) than males and that males get more third class degrees than females.

I have two DS's and two DD's so I'm all for gender equality Wink

University Admissions - I'm willing to answer any questions!
Molio · 27/04/2015 18:09

Obviously I'm not one to boast Needmoresleep, but I would say that I'm currently doing significantly better than Mrs Bennet in that respect :)

Littleham · 27/04/2015 18:11

I've got girls and a boy so I would like it as even as possible too.

By the way Lotus, your son sounds lovely and I think some girl will recognise it. Smile

Molio · 27/04/2015 18:21

Completely agree Littleham - Lotus your DS sounds the ideal match for an ambitious investment banker!

SometimesTables · 27/04/2015 18:39

Lotus's postman son might sound lovely but I'd be Confused to have Lotus as my mother in law. Grin Wink Shock

spinoa · 27/04/2015 19:44

A Cambridge grad friend says she thinks she is the only one out of her friendship group who works.

All of my undergraduate friends from Cambridge work, despite (for the most part) being married to other high earners. I guess it depends on your friendship circle.

Men and women don't get similar percentages of first class degrees in all fields - men get significantly more in some fields (which must mean that women get more in other fields). And the percentage of professors who are female is way less than 23% in some areas - I think it is currently running at about 10% in maths, for example, and this percentage is not changing very quickly.

LotusLight · 27/04/2015 20:10

He is certainly someone you'd turn to if things go wrong and is as bright as his ambitious lawyer sisters but different which is fine. We will see what he does in a couple of years when his brothers probably leave for university.

Molio · 27/04/2015 20:18

Lotus if he only graduated this summer with an Ancient History degree then he's well ahead of the curve being employed I'd say. Lots and lots aren't.

GentlyBenevolent · 27/04/2015 22:49

Word no he was a transponster. According to Rachel. He certainly wasn't an actuary. I think he was actually a management accountant.

GoingOffFishing · 27/04/2015 23:56

Ive had my pills! Blood is luke warm not boiling like it was earlier and then .........lotus in post 17.13 you mention "women rarely marry low earners......". Seriously ! You think woman pick their future partners not for his personality or goodness of heart but that he has to earn more than the women, this would be the deal breaker for marriage material ??? Don't you think this is a bit shallow if majority of women did that! Poor men would live a right shite life, in your world. You got women fighting for their jobs because otherwise we women are seen as pathetic and weak. They then have to try and get rich otherwise we won't marry them because we don't want to end up shopping at lidl trying to save a £1.

JeanneDeMontbaston · 28/04/2015 00:24

Males and females are awarded a similar percentage of first class degrees but more females get seconds (upper and lower) than males and that males get more third class degrees than females.

sometimes, I said 'there are still places'.

I am trying - probably pointlessly - to avoid saying 'at my university ...'.

We know it's not good and we're working on it. But, here, men are much more likely than women to get first class degrees in my subject, and it is a big worry.

upthe - yes, I did realize! Grin

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