British universities vs Dutch universities

Republic of Ireland, not Belfast

Dublin: TCD, UCD
Cork: UCC
etc

But you haven't studied abroad and maybe if you didn't speak to anyone as if they were 5 year olds you wouldn't be called patronising.

No hun it would be helpful if they were looking at university in America or Canada. Not a country where I can easily get on an hour plane and come home.

You are braver then i am, to study for a degree abroad. Good luck if you do choose this route!?!

How can you talk about employing people with degrees, when the highest education you have yourself is a levels???

What does my education have to do with who I employ?

And I have a CompSci HND from a poly.

How can you talk about employing people with degrees, when the highest education you have yourself is a levels???

I have a European friend who's mom used to work as a doctor in her home country. When they moved to the UK her mom's degree wasn't accepted by the NHS hospitals and she wasn't even accepted as a nurse until she took a UK nursing course!
I have also recently read an article about someone from a European country- can't remember which, but have a strong feeling it might have been dutch actually -who was a physiotherapist in his country but wasn't taken by the NHS in the UK, and after years wasting time on short courses he just decided to open his own private clinique.

This might apply almost only for sensitive kind of jobs like in the health sector, but I do remember having this Polish friend who studied psychology back in Poland and said that her degree wasn't worth much during her job search here in the UK.

we are talking about modern degrees here thanks

You are sailing close to the wind - please desist.

I've had foreign friends who were excellent in their mother tongue (duh!) and had IELTS/TOEFEL certificates proving their proficiency in English as well as doing a course in English and their mother tongue in their country. That still wasn't accepted as proof of being able to translate from one language to the other for British employers!

Lots of them would rather take someone who's slightly less fluent but who's got UK recognised degrees like NVQs and community translation certificates than someone who's excellent because it's their mother tongue but has foreign degrees/experiences the employer isn't familiar with!

It might also be that these employers simply prefer to employ British people rather than them having doubts about the qualifications. But thought I'd report what I've heard from personal experience and leave the OP and anyone else to come up with their own conclusions.

My dad's older than you are (in his mid sixties), dropped out of uni and he's earning a pretty decent salary. What that guy's saying is total rubbish so please just ignore it

Medicine is a "protected" degree in most countries.

Polish universities are unknown in the UK and there isn't exactly a lack of psychology graduates there, taking a foreigner is meaningless in most cases.

Going abroad depends on what you want to do. She wants to work in publishing, where having language skills is strongly recommended (for book translation and exportation) so it's relevant on her case.

My dad's older than you are (in his mid sixties), dropped out of uni and he's earning a pretty decent salary. What that guy's saying is total rubbish so please just ignore it

dw. I know

Thanks!

(And I can see you are too - which is more important.)

we are talking about modern degrees here thanks

So my course offers a language alongside it. Since I'm not fluent in Dutch I get to choose from Dutch, Swedish,Italian,Polish and Czech. Atm I'm rooting towards Dutch but would Italian sound better to employers?

Don't you have a Sociology with Theatre Studies degree...?

That I can't answer. It would entirely depend on the employer and what you wanted to do.

My thoughts: Italian is a more "popular" language, but you will be living in Holland so Dutch would probably be more relevant for your personal experience. And the locals would definitely appreciate it. On balance, I think Dutch.

Yup was rooting towards Dutch. I know German and its not too different from Dutch so could be helpful.

Should be a breeze then.