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Gordon · Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Posts: 5309 Location: Japan

Good decision Janice.

I think Stephen summed it up pretty well.

justcolleen · Joined: 07 Jan 2004 Posts: 654 Location: Egypt, baby!

Yeah. What Gordon said.

Janice, take the time to get a real degree. Think of it as an investment in yourself and your future. Yeah, it takes time and it costs money, but it's worth it.

Colleen

Aramas · Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 1:39 am Post subject:

I'm going to 'purchase' my BA online. Unfortunately it will take 2 years of full time study. I get a year's dispensation for 3 years of engineering and a year of physics. The course coordinators are obviously not mathematically inclined Smile

I can do it anwhere in the world and in the end I will have a degree that's indistinguishable from the on-campus degrees at the same university. I can also defer payments forever - if I never return to Australia I never have to pay! Wheee! Smile

Now that's what I call a bargain Razz

justcolleen · Joined: 07 Jan 2004 Posts: 654 Location: Egypt, baby!

Oh, it's possible to earn a B.A. without entering a classroom. My point was, and still is, paying any entity for a piece of paper is nothing more than throwing good money after bad. That said, I don't mean there is no value in a distance learning program, simply because there are many very good ones.

In fact, the university I just graduated from (an accredited, top 20, public university) offers a B.A. entirely by distance. The major is "Liberal Studies," the tuition is in-state, no matter where the student lives, and financial aid is, indeed, available.

I have to tell you, I was a little miffed that the professor of the Calculus course is the same guy I had in a classroom. He lets his distance students use a calculator ... he never let us. Grrrr. Evil or Very Mad

If anyone is interested, PM me for details.

Colleen

Tonester · Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 3:06 am Post subject:

Aramas · Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 7:50 am Post subject:

Yes well, don't get me started on the Australian government! We need regime change!

'Liberal Studies'? Ick! I'm doing mine in philosophy - there can never be too many naval gazers, and I hear there's a lot of money in it - at least for the universities. And chicks dig that stuff. If I had a dollar for every time I've heard "Ooh baby, you're so SMART! Talk clever to me! Oooh yeah!" I'd be...well...um, broke actually - but that's not the point! Smile

Open Learning Australia is a corporation owned and operated by half a dozen or so Australian universities, and real ones at that. They have buildings and everything! To do a specific degree you have to take a certain number of units at the particular uni, but the balance can be done with any of the other unis. Macquarie uni (where I'm doing mine) offers history/politics, sociology, and starting next year, philosophy (whee!).

About the only one that directly relates to being a sweatshop clown...um, I mean 'ESL Professional', is a MA in linguistics at Monash.

Any Aussies 'gone foreign' without a degree might want to have a look. You never know when you might want to get a real job.

http://www.ola.edu.au/