Nutrition and Dietetics - where oh where?

Acaila

Can you actually show any figures for that?
In any case, this thread is about dietetics. If you're going to continue with your attack on the university rather than discussing dietetics, please take yourself elsewhere :smile:

How would I have figures for it? The college does, that's where I checked them. Yes the thread is about dietetics, but they guy also asked about the college, so I wanted to tell him how CRAP it is!

Reply 23

I got figures today (from registry!), 72% are employed into graduate employment, the other 25% got other employment. This doesn't include the people who decided to do another degree. If we include the degree ones, it came to 68% graduate jobs, 23% other job, 4% continuing education, 5% unknown, or nothing.

The QMUC you keep describing is not one i recognise from the current set up, the one i have attended every day (almost) for the last 18 months. And the one for which i am a course rep at.

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Kink2000

I got figures today (from registry!), 72% are employed into graduate employment, the other 25% got other employment. This doesn't include the people who decided to do another degree. If we include the degree ones, it came to 68% graduate jobs, 23% other job, 4% continuing education, 5% unknown, or nothing.

The QMUC you keep describing is not one i recognise from the current set up, the one i have attended every day (almost) for the last 18 months. And the one for which i am a course rep at.

For the 2002/2003 figures, only 56% were in graduate employment, only half of uni students! The majority of people from my course were working as shop assistants, and I was on one of the more employable degrees out of the place. You could be making up the figures, that seems high compared to what I saw. Well QMUC must have damn changed a lot then in a matter of months, maybe I need to revisit it and see the dramatic and wonderful changes that are taking place!!!!

Reply 25

Acaila

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Well she has the current figures and I'd be more inclined to trust someone at the place with proper figures than someone intent on slandering the place :rolleyes:

Reply 26

I'm gonna get my friend to check the figures as it would be interesting to see how the graduate employment rate has shot up! When i last read it, it made for some sorry reading, i was shocked.

Reply 27

Not a case of it shooting up, just a case for more accurate follow up on past graduates, you'll find the unknown figure has declined, whereas the employment rate has increased.

Actually...i don't think its shot up at all, i believe it has remained the same...anyway...

Reply 28

This is the statement from the website based on 2003 figures: 93% of QMUC graduates find work or go on to further study within six months of graduating.
This can be checked at this site: http://www.qmuc.ac.uk/prospective_students/why_qmuc.htm Under the Great employment prospects paragraph!

And on page 5 of this report: http://www.qmuc.ac.uk/marketing/university/pdf/statutory_accounts_2005.pdf Under the graduates in employment paragraph.

And this site quotes a figure of 96% http://education.independent.co.uk/higher/az_uni_colleges/article304001.ece Look at the added value paragraph!

And now i'm confused, i'm sure the prosepectus had a similar figure in the 2003 prospectus... It was one of the reasons i chose QMUC! So has it really shot up? :wink:

Can you please, please, please stop putting our university down all the time? Its not that bad! Its a very good university!

Reply 29

I'm gonna put it down as much as i like which is going to be until you stop responding that it's a good uni. It's one big, fat, ulgy, stupid, dump and it certainly is NOT a Uni!! Lol

Reply 30

I'm sticking around to sing its praises, and just one point i thought you had to spell to get to uni? U-G-L-Y

Sorry, but since you keep putting one of the top UNI's (uni because its in the university league tables) down, i thought i'd put you down.

On a more constructive note, QMUC is also the top university in the country for Dietetics

Reply 31

Acaila

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lynn20

I'm gonna put it down as much as i like which is going to be until you stop responding that it's a good uni. It's one big, fat, ulgy, stupid, dump and it certainly is NOT a Uni!! Lol

Tsk tsk, wrong again. QM isn't a big uni :p:

I also love the insinuation that an institution can be overweight, especially one that does a dietetics course
Incidentally, I would brush up on spelling and punctuation dear. Now here at QM, they're sticklers on such things - maybe you have something against the place because they told you off for poor English skills?

Reply 32

Acaila

Tsk tsk, wrong again. QM isn't a big uni :p:

I also love the insinuation that an institution can be overweight, especially one that does a dietetics course
Incidentally, I would brush up on spelling and punctuation dear. Now here at QM, they're sticklers on such things - maybe you have something against the place because they told you off for poor English skills?

hehe, good one! :p:

Reply 33

College's cannot validate their own degrees which is why we are a university and in terms of league tables it varies, we are 55th in the Sunday times, and compare this to the Scottish uni's that do my course, Robert Gordan University is placed 72nd, and Glasgow Caledonian which is 87th. Plus it is placed higher than Leeds Met which is 78th, Coventry University is 76th and University of Wales Institute Cardiff which is 88th. Those were the universities i was considering for my course, so i think i made a good judgement. Also, QMUC is a small university, with less courses than most big universities, and also low student numbers, less than 4000 students! I think we can consider QM a top university, especially for Nutrition and Dietetics (only taught at 13 institutions in the UK, and i've named 6 of them) which is what this thread is about!

Reply 34

when was your last post about nutrition? The post was about helping someone choose a place for nutrition, bound to be personal if i'm studying the course, but at least i try to give advice.

QMUC is well known for its dietetics course, i was told to go there by 3 different people, who don't even know each other, 2 were dietitians, one was my college tutor. The reason for going there was for its dietetics reputation. All of these people live in Yorkshire..and have never even been to QMUC.

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