Quick poll - how long does it take to mark your assignments?

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Am doing a part-time MA and getting very frustrated by the length of time it takes to get assignments back - average 6-8 weeks. It's usually too late to take comments into account for the next assignment and is dampening my motivation quite significantly! Just interested in hearing other people's experiences - this isn't a distance learning course either

hehe i dont expect anything in advance from ours either.
supposed to be getting our timetables for next year in june. dont see that happening didnt get ours for definate til our first day this sept.

would love to get a headstart on next years work tho

i hopeyou get yours in time to get ahead start

it would be lovely I could do my reading and plan them out but they would probably change there mind about what they were doing or something and it would all be for nothing!

What are you studying Ive just seen you on the early years thread!

i'm doing ba (hons) Early childhood studies,
what is it your doing?

Foundation degree children and young persons but im going to (hopefully) take it up to the full degree

do you find it hard juggling everything?

Ive just realised there isnt a single clean dish in the house!

can see a very mixed bag here in terms of marking times! My uni does seem pretty badly organised but I suppose at least they have always turned up to teach us!

which I always find very helpful!

its very hard juggling everything i feel like i'm constantly behind on everything here, uni work and housework.
i've just stopped inviting people round and go out lots to see friends

Its awful! when I had dd my health visiter asked if i thought i might have ocd because i cleaned so much! if she could see me now!

glad its not just me- friends used to call me monica, think if i let them through the door now i'd be joey - without the sex life

my ds has just got me good- i went into bathroom to get next wash load to put on he stopped me on route, said mum how do you spell eyecup so i spellt it out i-c-u-p doh!!

so how old are your los my dd is 4

my ds is 9 and my dd is 2

thats a big age gap! not as much as me and my brother mind 20 years

apart from the fact you have two and I have one you could be me ! if you see what i mean

it is a bit large, wish it had been smaller would have made things a bit easier in terms of occupying them in the same activity or day out.

i can imagin its hard when one wants to go to soft play and the other wants to do what ever it is you do with nine year old boys!

i dont have too much argueing about where we go yet as dd is only just 2, 3 weeks ago, so doesnt quite have the vocab to argue. although that said she has started to ask o go to play everytime we leave the flat (she means to the park)
the hardest is ds wanting to do things like go to chessington type places as he cant do the rides by himself and dd is too small for the ones he wants. we've not been anywhere like that since dd was born but he'd love to go.

soft play works quite well as he loves to "look after her" we tend to play all together at these which is nice. its things like at fun pools where he wants to go on flumes with me but dd cant do yet that are hard, or taking them to farms etc which she would stand and stare at the animals all day, but he's bored so plays up.

do you not have anyone who might go with you? like friends with children the same age as one of yours? so you can take turns going with the older ones

no my friends are only just having babies now.
i am hoping to go next month to chessington with my aunt and uncle, my cousin is my ds's age.
my main prob is dd is very clingy but am hoping her dad will have her for the weekend when they are planning to go. she has started staying with him regularly and i try and make that grown up time. we went ice skating a few weeks ago or we go to cinema if i have enough cash left. otherwise we just sit home watching tv and playing games etc til really late at night

the cash situation does tend to get in the way! at least he is spending quality time with you feel like im getting non with dd

shes at school then bed by 6 or shes a nightmare im at college 2 nights a week work 3 days and any free time at the minites for assignments

so ill have to do loads with her over the summer

it is very hard,but like you say nearly summer so loads more time free then
i'm only in uni 3 days. i make weekends childrens time i dont do any uni work unless they fall asleep at a decent time.
have to do a placement next year as well am feeling a bt stressed about times etc at the mo. hopefully once i get my timetable for next year i can organse myself- i'm a total contral freak, like everything all planned out and know what i'm doing. so hate the fact uni is soooo disorganised.

if you are on placement they have to accept the hours you can do since they arent paying you if its a private day nursery they might bully you in to i mean ask you to do more hours because they need the extra hands but dont let them!

oh really thanks fpr that- i missed the lecture where we were given info on the placements, i've actually missed nearly as many as i made it in to this year as dd has been very poorly this past year.
all i know about placements is that i choose where i go, and its preferable if its with special needs children
have emailed the person in charge of that side of it but she's away at the mo. so hopefully will get back to me next week when shes due back.

well just have a ring round whats local and explain what you need it shouldnt be difficult. To be honest with children I would just go for the closest one its easier

thats what i was thinking of doing, am lucky i live in one town, uni is in next twn and cm is in the town other side of that iyswim so anywhere between the 3 would hopefully work. i just dont know how many hours i need to do for my course. so going to hopefully find that out and get started finding somewhere. am a bit concerned as if e have to have special needs, that it might limit me to schools as they tend t be diagnosed once the child starts school ( unless i'm greatly mistaken) and i dont want to work in schools or be a teacher, which a lot of people on the course do want to do

I got kicked off and they wouldnt let me back on it was too busy!

It depends on the sn really somethings obviously you can tell from birth or before.

Some private day nurserys sell themselves as specialising in sn I can think of at least one here that does.

I would ask if it has to be or if they just recomend it, and why, and would it disadvantage you on the course if it wasnt to be honest