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Do you understand about university education in the UK?

This is for UK parents since the US parents seem to understand this already. When your child is ready for university please make sure that you know the difference between good universities and bad ones.

There are some universities that students who know about the differences will avoid at all costs. However it is extremely difficult as I have just found to get anyone to admit that not all universities are good. There seem to be a lot of vested interests. I don't know how you can find out but maybe someone on Y!A has some ideas?

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  • 6 years ago

    What do you consider a bad university? Do you just judge on the ranking of the institution

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    5 years ago

    My old ALMA MATER of which I am a Master and Senate member , Cambridge , is pretty good . It is also selective . At the time I matriculated , for each successful candidate , 31 were rejected . So perhaps you should stick with the Americam correspondence course .

  • 6 years ago

    Just stay clear of polytechnics (the old ones that converted into universities in the late 90's.)

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    I think you may have misunderstood the purpose of Yahoo! Answers. This is not a forum for you to write your opinion pieces and then pretend they are questions by saying "maybe someone... has some ideas?" at the end.

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  • 6 years ago

    are universities that were former polytechnics bad for employment? just wanted to know this, because I have offers to study my MS in brighton,MMU,Loughborough and UWS (Scotland). which one is best?

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