Cancer Sciences BSc 2021 Entry (Nottingham University)

Hi guyss,

I was wondering who else is going to nott uni to do this course as I know they only have around 30 people doing the course each year. Lets get to know each other before hand!

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Reply 1

Caitlinella02

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Hi, I'm studying Cancer sciences at UoN this year!

Reply 2

Ml141516

Hi, what do they ask you for the interview?

Reply 3

Zara.b :))

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Original post by Caitlinella02

Hi, I'm studying Cancer sciences at UoN this year!

Heyy are you still studying this course?

Reply 4

Anonymous #1

Hi,

I was looking at applying to the MSci Cancer Sciences degree by Nottingham University. However, there's not much information about the course as it's quite, especially from a student perspective, as it's quite new. So I was wondering whether anyone who is currently taking the course or has taken the course, would be able to tell me about their experience.

Some questions I have are as follows:
- Is the course laid out well?
- What would you say you enjoy about the course and what can be improved?
- what job opportunities can be gotten with the degree? Would you say that it's relatively easy to get a job with the degree or extra credentials need to be gotten?
- As part of the MSci course, in the 4th Yr you have to do a nine-month placement in industry or in the lab. Does the uni provide places for the placement or do students need to find themselves?Also at the end of the placement do students get a qualification/ are registered to a professional council?

Sorry about the questions, but I'm really interested and the course page doesn't say much.

Thank you!

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daniitaylor

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Original post by Anonymous

Hi,
I was looking at applying to the MSci Cancer Sciences degree by Nottingham University. However, there's not much information about the course as it's quite, especially from a student perspective, as it's quite new. So I was wondering whether anyone who is currently taking the course or has taken the course, would be able to tell me about their experience.
Some questions I have are as follows:
- Is the course laid out well?
- What would you say you enjoy about the course and what can be improved?
- what job opportunities can be gotten with the degree? Would you say that it's relatively easy to get a job with the degree or extra credentials need to be gotten?
- As part of the MSci course, in the 4th Yr you have to do a nine-month placement in industry or in the lab. Does the uni provide places for the placement or do students need to find themselves?Also at the end of the placement do students get a qualification/ are registered to a professional council?
Sorry about the questions, but I'm really interested and the course page doesn't say much.
Thank you!

Hey,

I am currently a 2nd year on the BSc Cancer Sciences course so am happy to answer these questions for you to the best of my ability.

1.

No, the course is not laid out very well. We are very much pushed to the side, the timetabling is rubbish (i.e. some weeks we have 6 taught hours, some weeks we have 0, there is very little consistency), and lecturers who also teach on the medicine course often forget about our lectures, thus we turn up and they do not arrive. We often get an email afterwards saying the lecture will be rearranged, and then three weeks later they tell us that it will be the following day.

2.

When we are actually taught (not very often - contact hours are extremely low), I mostly enjoy the content. The main improvement needed on the course are the overall layout. For example, we had one module last semester entitled 'Colorectal and Ovarian Cancer'. However, we recieved zero teaching on ovarian cancer, and we were told we were expected to do the research ourselves in groups, present our findings to half the year, and then learn and revise said findings for the exam. We kicked up a fuss about this, and luckily this content was not examined, but the fact that they thought it was appropriate to have us take random inforamtion off Google and learn it with no structure was ridiculous. To add to this - this all occured about a month before the end of term - meaning they had more than enough time to teach, but a lot of the lecturers simply don't want to. This isn't all of them, we have some great and engaged lectuers, it's just a shame that the contact hours are so low. Additionally, there doesn't seem to be a lot of collusion amongst different modules, meaning we often learn the same basics over and over again.

3.

Not sure tbh. Probably for any type of lab career. The course says it is good as a foundation for PGM, this is not true at all.

4.

From my understanding, the uni provide help for all students registered on the MSci.

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BLACK_SHEEP447

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Original post by daniitaylor

Hey,
I am currently a 2nd year on the BSc Cancer Sciences course so am happy to answer these questions for you to the best of my ability.

1.

No, the course is not laid out very well. We are very much pushed to the side, the timetabling is rubbish (i.e. some weeks we have 6 taught hours, some weeks we have 0, there is very little consistency), and lecturers who also teach on the medicine course often forget about our lectures, thus we turn up and they do not arrive. We often get an email afterwards saying the lecture will be rearranged, and then three weeks later they tell us that it will be the following day.

2.

When we are actually taught (not very often - contact hours are extremely low), I mostly enjoy the content. The main improvement needed on the course are the overall layout. For example, we had one module last semester entitled 'Colorectal and Ovarian Cancer'. However, we recieved zero teaching on ovarian cancer, and we were told we were expected to do the research ourselves in groups, present our findings to half the year, and then learn and revise said findings for the exam. We kicked up a fuss about this, and luckily this content was not examined, but the fact that they thought it was appropriate to have us take random inforamtion off Google and learn it with no structure was ridiculous. To add to this - this all occured about a month before the end of term - meaning they had more than enough time to teach, but a lot of the lecturers simply don't want to. This isn't all of them, we have some great and engaged lectuers, it's just a shame that the contact hours are so low. Additionally, there doesn't seem to be a lot of collusion amongst different modules, meaning we often learn the same basics over and over again.

3.

Not sure tbh. Probably for any type of lab career. The course says it is good as a foundation for PGM, this is not true at all.

4.

From my understanding, the uni provide help for all students registered on the MSci.

would you recommend the course?

Reply 7

Anonymous #2

Original post by BLACK_SHEEP447

would you recommend the course?

Not at all unfortunately. It's a shame as it sounds so exciting and has so much potential, and Nottingham has one of the best centres for cancer research but I think you're better off doing any type of biomed degree and then specialising than doing this one.

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