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BeansonToast, need your advice!!

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allgonebellyup · 07/08/2007 14:32

Still struggling to decide whether to go for the 2yr post grad or the 4yr salt degree, i was planning on doing the latter...

but i rang City to just ask something else and mentioned i already have a degree, and the lady there said there would be no point in me doing the 4yr course as both courses are the same in work pressures/hours..eg she said both are 9-5 mon-fri, is this true then???
i thought the BSc would be slightly softer?

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beansontoast · 07/08/2007 15:08

mmmmnn..th person you spoke to knows about both courses (who was it?)..so im not sure how much i can add as i have experience of teh four year course and only a little second hand info re the post grad course.

i do know that thee were mothers with young families who completed the post grad course...and could still e seen smiling and laughing and getting on with things!

id reckon that teh post grad is more of a sprint.

stuff i know about the p.grad course:
it is intense and the terms are longer.
you have to attend a prep course.
some people didnt feel prepared to start work.
there is more pressure on your placements as you have fewer.
no dissertation/research project.

the under grad course is spread out and you have time to cover the material in gretaer depth...both in class and independently.

in that respect it is 'softer'.i welcomed the chance to be able to consolidate knowledge,rest and develop clinical skills at the four year pace.that said it still felt like i never switched off for four years (did get into th eswing of it in teh foourth year though)

however it is up to you...obviously...what do you think you would prefer a sprint and a job at the end of two years (less debt?)...(which strikes me as more practical)

i hop ethis helps a bit....

i THINK...that moondog?? might have done the post grad course....but dont know if she had children then?

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allgonebellyup · 07/08/2007 17:30

thankyou!!!
yes moondog said she did the post grad before kids.

Hmmm still cant decide what to do...

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beansontoast · 08/08/2007 09:29

dont be scared by the post grad course...im sure you could do it.

when i studied it was definitely a case of 'im like a donkey...go best when fully loaded'...the pressure and intensity definitely ensured that i kept at it !

also they are so lovely at the uni...really supportive..

i really really really miss it

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allgonebellyup · 09/08/2007 08:23

Actually will call them again!

Do you definitely have a "study day" once every week, this is what i am hoping for! it says on all the course info that a typical week at city means 3 days at the uni, one on placement and one private study day..
i need this one day a week!
Also arent the xmas,easter and summer hols slightly longer?

sorry, i promise i will stop bothering you soon and make a bloody decision!

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moondog · 09/08/2007 08:48

My colleague did the pg course with 4 teenagers.
It will be tough but hey,so be it.
I'm doind an MSc now with two kids,f/t job,dh away and a p/t business.

Now that is tough.

Gop for it-more salts desperately needed.

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allgonebellyup · 09/08/2007 13:23

moondog - i thought there were no jobs now in the nhs for NQ salts??

i just rang City again and they said the first term on the pg diploma is the real killer, v intense, then its slightly more gentle? And the same length of hols as the BSc.

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moondog · 09/08/2007 14:40

Well so they say..about lots of allied jobs. Is it true or Tory scaremongering?

The bulletin is in hose magazine which advertises posts.Get hold of a copy and have a look inthere for ideas of what is about.

In my chose field (LD there are loads of jobs going and I get contacted regularly by agencies in Oz,SA and NZ begging me to go and work there.

All the course was pretty tough going tbh.Fascinating but tough.

beansontoast · 12/08/2007 20:43

By the time you qualify..i would expect teh job situation to have changed further.

The shortages at the moment are the result of 'Agenda for Change' (whereby all jobs/job descriptions in teh NHS were standardised) and also because of financial freezes.

in some areas/trusts,SLTs were inclined(and advised) to sit tight and not lose their favourable terms and conditions in teh process of moving to another job....creating localised stagnation.

vacancies were also in short supply as new posts were not being created due to freezes...this is already on the up ...cant quote the stats,but the bleakest year was 2006.

look on NHS websites for jobs...the college siad that not all vacancies are advertised in the Bulletin as it is expensive!

Currently the only area of actual 'growth' in SLT is in paediatric ,namely Children's Centres...as part of 'every child matters'...but lots of my year have aready found jobs in acute and community adult settings.

re: study days.cant remember the first year...think we had weds off..i mean to study!!

def def get a study day on undergrad course in years two (weds or thurs)and three (mon or friday)

the fourth year is the MOST DO-ABLE year of them all...the whole first term is a breeeeeze!...in for a day and a half per week...the rest was independent study for dissertation and the odd lecture,second term is placement and last term is writing up your
dissertation....doddle!

at christmas and easter you will have a WHOLE month orf!...generally with graft to do...but orf none the less!

have i mentioned that i miss it?

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