What does everyone plan on doing with their Politics degree?

// If you have one or are going to do one? I'm thinking of doing one but wouldn't know what to do with it. I want to teach History but apparently it's hard to do so with a Politics degree. Not taking History for AS/A2 either.

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BKS

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I've never looked into it but I believe studying history would be much more useful to teach history and if you do politics teaching politics would be a more appropriate goal.

I work in charity fundraising (grants and tendering, not street collections or community events) which makes use of general social science degree related skills- research, analysing information, writing- which I guess is as close as you get to using a politics degree without teaching. I'm not even sure a politics degree is necessarily the most useful for working in politics.

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eoj89

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Original post by BKS

I've never looked into it but I believe studying history would be much more useful to teach history and if you do politics teaching politics would be a more appropriate goal.

I work in charity fundraising (grants and tendering, not street collections or community events) which makes use of general social science degree related skills- research, analysing information, writing- which I guess is as close as you get to using a politics degree without teaching. I'm not even sure a politics degree is necessarily the most useful for working in politics.

I think you can do a PGCE in History when you have a Politics degree as it's a subject related to History (I think.) Is there no way you can so a Politics-History conversion, as I know you can do it the other way around?

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BKS

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Original post by eoj89

I think you can do a PGCE in History when you have a Politics degree as it's a subject related to History (I think.) Is there no way you can so a Politics-History conversion, as I know you can do it the other way around?

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Like I said, I never looked into it but if you plan to do it you should do so carefully but from what you are saying it sounds like you'd just be making your own life harder- which obviously you can do all you want but it might not be sensible

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