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Graduation day, University of Glasgow
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C274
lanne

Smashing, cheers.

0404343m
Handing the form in on day one of FW is fine, but you will have to bring passport photos and stand in the mother of all queues, because half the freshers have the same idea.

Haha, thanks.
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Reply 1521
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karen16
Hey everyone.
I'm going into second year doing all Biology modules...but there's only around 2 weeks to go and I haven't received any book list.
When I go into register it says I will receive my timetable, and pay £1 for every module I'm doing to receive course materials.
So, do I need books or am I just missing something completely?

Thanks.
ferdi.g
Look up your course on the course catalogue and it says when you have lessons...

course catalogue? wheres this??
just came home from America have a thousand letters and e-mails to go through, need my freshers pass, need a name badge, and so much more and I dont know where to start :s-smilie:
Im not going to arrive in glasgow till late sat night, hoping to buy most stuff on the sunday mornign after, cant be arssed carrying cups and paltes and food up.

the list on TSR is like a bilbe to read through as well, somethign I have no time for.
But one Q do we need to get all our stuff from murano over xmas or can they stay there?
Reply 1523
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Z-6H820
x_dwin_ffeimys_x
course catalogue? wheres this??
just came home from America have a thousand letters and e-mails to go through, need my freshers pass, need a name badge, and so much more and I dont know where to start :s-smilie:
Im not going to arrive in glasgow till late sat night, hoping to buy most stuff on the sunday mornign after, cant be arssed carrying cups and paltes and food up.

the list on TSR is like a bilbe to read through as well, somethign I have no time for.
But one Q do we need to get all our stuff from murano over xmas or can they stay there?


http://www.gla.ac.uk/students/ course catalogue is under the Study heading, can't help you about Murano though :smile:
conway!
http://www.gla.ac.uk/students/ course catalogue is under the Study heading, can't help you about Murano though :smile:

My course isnt there...aa well, I have my timtable for the first week so Ill go from there
x_dwin_ffeimys_x
course catalogue? wheres this??
just came home from America have a thousand letters and e-mails to go through, need my freshers pass, need a name badge, and so much more and I dont know where to start :s-smilie:
Im not going to arrive in glasgow till late sat night, hoping to buy most stuff on the sunday mornign after, cant be arssed carrying cups and paltes and food up.

the list on TSR is like a bilbe to read through as well, somethign I have no time for.
But one Q do we need to get all our stuff from murano over xmas or can they stay there?


You rent the place all the way through until next year so I can guess you can leave it there over christmas. In fact, I'm sure you can :smile:.


http://www.gla.ac.uk/coursecatalogue/search/

Select Level 1 and write in your course keyword (ex: History) and then pick whichever one is for first semester and it'll say when you have class :smile:
karen16
Hey everyone.
I'm going into second year doing all Biology modules...but there's only around 2 weeks to go and I haven't received any book list.
When I go into register it says I will receive my timetable, and pay £1 for every module I'm doing to receive course materials.
So, do I need books or am I just missing something completely?

Thanks.


You will just get your CID in that and your timetable, the £1 is just for all the lab books etc you will get from your modules.

Personally, I wouldn't get any textbooks, you are doing 11ish different classes this year, it isn't feasible to get half of them never mind all. I didn't get any last year, all the info for exams in in lecture notes and I just used the library for textbooks. Also it's really useful if you make friends whom you can borrow books from too.
G8D
The photo for student cards is taken at the induction right?
It's not just recycled from the freshers pass?


It was taken with a webcam at registration last year... so doesn't matter how nice your freshers' pass picture is, your matric card will still be awful :p:
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Z-6H820
sorry, but i've got my adviser meeting tomorrow at half nine and I have no idea how to get there... i can get the 44 but the timetable looks like the earlier buses don't go the uni :s anybody tell me how i know when to get off the bus?
conway!
sorry, but i've got my adviser meeting tomorrow at half nine and I have no idea how to get there... i can get the 44 but the timetable looks like the earlier buses don't go the uni :s anybody tell me how i know when to get off the bus?


Presuming you're coming in from the city centre? The 44A should get you there, and it should be fairly obvious when to get off if you've ever been to the uni before, as it goes straight up university avenue - the bus goes along up Woodlands Road, past a pub called The Old Schoolhouse (RIP Primary), up and then turns left at the GUU and along University Avenue - you'll see the main uni buildings, the Wellington Church, and the Fraser Building / Hub.
Alternatively, you'd be easier getting the subway from St Enoch or Buchanan St - the Inner Circle to Hillhead, then when you get out the station just turn left.
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Z-6H820
sparklysparkles
Presuming you're coming in from the city centre? The 44A should get you there, and it should be fairly obvious when to get off if you've ever been to the uni before, as it goes straight up university avenue - the bus goes along up Woodlands Road, past a pub called The Old Schoolhouse (RIP Primary), up and then turns left at the GUU and along University Avenue - you'll see the main uni buildings, the Wellington Church, and the Fraser Building / Hub.
Alternatively, you'd be easier getting the subway from St Enoch or Buchanan St - the Inner Circle to Hillhead, then when you get out the station just turn left.


that's a better idea, i can get to Bridge St easily enough and then just get the subway. And I've only been to the uni once, for the open day not this year but last, so I'm sure I'd manage to get off at the wrong place :p: thanks!
Anyone doing Level 2 American History, take cover. You have a one in six chance of getting me as your tutor. Level 2 European History at Caley, you have a one in three chance of getting me. Do you feel (un)lucky, punks?
American History <3

I had such a lovely tutor for that.
Open day was apparently the busiest ever. Arts and Social Sciences have over-recruited by a heap for the tenth year running.

Entry requirements to be AAA (A-Level) and AAAA (higher) next year, with potentially preference for 'contextual factors' a-la Edinburgh. You heard it here first.
0404343m
Open day was apparently the busiest ever. Arts and Social Sciences have over-recruited by a heap for the tenth year running.

Entry requirements to be AAA (A-Level) and AAAA (higher) next year, with potentially preference for 'contextual factors' a-la Edinburgh. You heard it here first.


Eeeeeep. Now I really regret not going to Glasgow :sad:
River85
Eeeeeep. Now I really regret not going to Glasgow :sad:


It's one of these cycles. When it was around BBB to get in, people from England didn't think much of it, not realising that it was first year of four ergo it was a year earlier. Since the entry has crept up and up though it's only making the place more popular. If the amount of applicants goes up next year by the amount it went up this year, it'll be 8 applications per place on average, and double that for popular courses. This year was already over 7 per place, and even Computer Science (which always had spaces) was full. There are 110 students TOO MANY in the Social Sciences college alone in this freshers intake. The danger is, AAAA at higher is ridiculous for state-schooled Scottish students, that's probably top 2% for a state school in Greater Glasgow. If they don't take into account the context in which grades were performed, then it could get messy and the people the university was originally set up to serve could miss out.
0404343m
Open day was apparently the busiest ever. Arts and Social Sciences have over-recruited by a heap for the tenth year running.

Entry requirements to be AAA (A-Level) and AAAA (higher) next year, with potentially preference for 'contextual factors' a-la Edinburgh. You heard it here first.


Wow, that is quite something, but have they not changed the Highers now so they are a bit different? No one sees to know much about this new curriculum thing though.

Anyway, my state school (crap/average you decide) had less than ten people who got five Highers in one sitting. Not five As, just five Highers! Out of those, I think less than half got four or more As.
TheOneWho
Wow, that is quite something, but have they not changed the Highers now so they are a bit different? No one sees to know much about this new curriculum thing though.

Anyway, my state school (crap/average you decide) had less than ten people who got five Highers in one sitting. Not five As, just five Highers! Out of those, I think less than half got four or more As.


I think the curriculum for excellence is being rolled out in schools from first year, so it'll be six years before universities in Scotland have anything to do with it. The source I got the info from is a Prof who is on the senior management of a college, dean of something or other, so it's probably a good bet they'll implement it. I dunno if that'll be AAAA for more than one sitting and AAAB at first though.

I mean, it's good the university is so popular and all that (if not among the kind of people who aspire to Durham/St Andrews when that devastating Oxbridge rejection letter comes through), but I'd be very careful with some of the applicants from schools like ours. I had AABBC at first sitting, which was enough to be in the top 20 out of 300 students that started my year of school, and under the new system, if it's rigidly on grades, I'd have missed out on a place at Glasgow. It's quite clearly obvious that grades aren't everything when some of my 5A friends bust a gut to get a 2:1 and I did significantly better. So here's hoping they recognise that school grades are only part of the story.
0404343m
I mean, it's good the university is so popular and all that (if not among the kind of people who aspire to Durham/St Andrews when that devastating Oxbridge rejection letter comes through), but I'd be very careful with some of the applicants from schools like ours. I had AABBC at first sitting, which was enough to be in the top 20 out of 300 students that started my year of school, and under the new system, if it's rigidly on grades, I'd have missed out on a place at Glasgow. It's quite clearly obvious that grades aren't everything when some of my 5A friends bust a gut to get a 2:1 and I did significantly better. So here's hoping they recognise that school grades are only part of the story.


I got an unconditional, but it wasn't through the conventional BBBB route, it was the getting ABC in three sciences one. I do think school grades are nowhere near enough, but is there anything else they can realistically use? Obviously there are differences in achievement dependent on the actual schools, but do they not consider that already?

In other news, I don't know if I want to do a masters anymore, but don't know what to do instead. Gah, why is life so confusing :frown:
TheOneWho
I got an unconditional, but it wasn't through the conventional BBBB route, it was the getting ABC in three sciences one. I do think school grades are nowhere near enough, but is there anything else they can realistically use? Obviously there are differences in achievement dependent on the actual schools, but do they not consider that already?

In other news, I don't know if I want to do a masters anymore, but don't know what to do instead. Gah, why is life so confusing :frown:


Umm, as far as I was aware, Glasgow did not have contextual factors, simply because in the past they did not have to. Nearly 70% of the university is Scottish, and over 80% is state schooled. At Edinburgh it was less than 40% Scottish and less than 60% state schooled, so it was a much bigger deal to work out who to make offers to. Infact, UCAS had a profile of applicants on the site for the 2008 session, and the applicant profiles of Glasgow and Edinburgh were remarkably similar in all but one respect: Edinburgh gets three times as many applicants from families in the top six out of seventeen social groups (so parents who do things like higher-supervisory positions and above) from England (I'd say the lion's share of that is to do with the stereotype the city of Glasgow carries in the south). Ergo, they had to have a think about not disadvantaging the locals (which shamefully was picked up on as being anti-English) because they could fill the university three times over each year with applicants from certain backgrounds, and thus the kind of people who come on TSR all get rejected and either become bitter or think the place is an ivory tower. But yeah, that could be the way we go in the next 2-3 years.

This is a good read: http://www.jrf.org.uk/publications/socio-economic-disadvantage-and-experience-higher-education

Especially this quote: "I don't want to open my mouth in class because they're gonnae hear my accent and know that I'm no coming fae, you know, somewhere like that. That's why I chose [former-polytechnic university] cos' all the professors spoke like me, you know they all had this kind of a voice, and everybody that went there, was just like me."
(Evelyn, 20, degree dropout)

Sound like anyone?


If you can get a job, then the masters is unnecessary work IMO, esp if it's not tailored to get you into what you really want to do or go into academia. That being said, getting something else to set you apart isn't a bad idea... At this rate, a PhD doesn't sound bad, because we might be needing the lecturers in three years time.

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