So many interesting posts here since last I was on and I want to comment on them all 
. Head has been buried deep in last minute packing and shopping....o yes! Shopping for my CHILD(to those who don’t know I am the author of the BACKPACK thread. Please pm me for payment of all royalties .
I had no idea when i idly started that thread, that it would snowball into something of that magnitude. It’s the worst case of over projecting I’ve seen.
To the poster whose dc has gone to Swansea, Swansea is a marvellous uni and I’m still secretly disappointed DS isn’t going there, it was his insurance. I was blown away by the department, facilities and tutors that I met. Not to talk of the sea on the doorstep. Imagine going to the beach every time you visit
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Re:RG thread, the likes of Bath, Loughborough etc. They’re way better than quite a few of the acclaimed RGs. I had to ask that question because I thought if employers really aren’t having regards for the aforementioned, perhaps I should just advise DS2 to stick to the RG list?. I graduated yonks ago and went to (whisper) an “ex poly”. But at the time had no reference point (recently arrived from abroad) for it nor did RG list exist.
DH and I both went to what MN would call dire non Unis but we both went on to have good careers. DH went on to do an MBA at Harvard from rubbish ex poly! Neither of us got Jobs via graduate recruitment, infact no one came to recruit at our poly/uni😂. I got my first job from an advert in the local Herald newspaper for my local area. It required a degree for a very specific role, i got it and just went up from there.
Graduate recruitment” programs are not the only source of jobs.
My course also had 3month internship included. The local businesses always like to support local unis so I ended up doing my internship with BA. Infact BA didn’t recruit interns from any other university. I’m sure MN elite would’ve assumed only RGs could be offered such an opportunity.
I do feel for posters perhaps reading these threads for whom this is their first time of supporting a dc or going to university themself/selves? The confidence with which some speak that unless you go to RG you will NEVER GET A GRADUATE JOB! It must be so stressful them.
Last but not the least, the funniest thing on MN education threads I’ve read is, just when you thought you’d got into the RG elite, you mention Cardiff(DS)/Liverpool and poster pops up, ‘those are bottom of the RG’, Newcastle? “they Let anyone in”, Birmingham? “Full of unconditionals”. Only the “golden five” will do! . So my last word is unless your dc is in the G5 you’re wasting your time .