PhD after LLB?

Yip, I'm going on to do Postgraduate study after this LLB lark.

That is, applications pending, of course

Did you apply to any US unis, as you were considering out of interest?

You should probably register for a research based masters which can be used as a basis for a PhD topic. Like the above poster says, Mphil or may-be Mst. Suppose if they really will fund the PhD back at home then perhaps the masters would be a good investment to make. Also, there are scholarships for masters in the UK at many universities but under many schemes I notice that international students often receive less unless it is specifically for international students. Dundee sponsors one or two research based LLM's a year.

Um.. To me that sounds a good reason for applying for an Mphil then (doah)

You can't swap across. You apply to do a PhD but the university does as I described.



That is another way of saying what I posted in that if you aren't good enough/don't perform they will give you the opportunity to read for an MPhil.

You don't swop across at my university. You get a grade for it, a cap and gown and then progress to a PhD for the latter two years which is not graded. You were suggesting that I did not know what I was on about, not to mention unneccessarily being a 'clever dick' so I thought I'd knock you down a notch because your posts generally irritate me.

No PhD is graded. I also don't believe they graduate you as an MPhil and then let you finish it off as a PhD. That's illogical as the graduation ceremony is for when a Degree is awarded and if you are only part way you haven't had it awarded yet. Therefore, I still suspect you don't know what you are talkign about.

Good for you being irritated. Unfortunately that doesn't bother me one way or another and so I haven't been knocked anywhere.

Have you ever heard of the ERSC 1+3 programme. At Cambridge you do a Mphil on a narrow range of your topic to pass the qualifying test which gives you a grade. This is important for selection for academic posts and helped reveal the quality of your research work. Then you do 3 years PhD on a broader topic. The masters qualifies you in research methods.

Technically two degrees.



technically two degrees.

Well done. You have just comprehensively proven the point opposite to that you were making.