Computer Studies

Advantages: Friendly staff, keep job options open, Sheffield, Work Experience
Disadvantages: Work Placements aren't always as hoped for

...know many of you will have heard that Nottingham has the highest level of gun crime in the country but...", and the accommodation tour revealed many closed social rooms and vandalised walls. I was left then with Sheffield Hallam, unconvinced that the Education Studies course was for me, I began working extremely hard to get into Leeds. Judgment Day --------------------- At 5.30 in the morning of the day that my results were due I found myself sitting on my computer refreshing the UCAS website every 2 minutes waiting.... at 7.00 I got a new error message, there were too many people accessing the website and I would be unable to see my results, they were up. At 7.30 I managed to access a webpage and was met by 3 words that changed my whole life: "Leeds University - Unsuccessful" I stumbled into the hall and fell onto my knees, my... Read review

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Advantages: good if you can already program
Disadvantages: waste of money is you cannot already program

...Last year, I joined the MSc Computing postgraduate conversion course at Northumbria University. This was supposed to be for non IT graduates, except that I found that 90% of students already had BSc's in Computer Science! Basically, money talks! Especially when overseas students pay more than double what UK students pay in course fees. From the start, the pace was breakneck, with the expectation that you should be able to write a fairly complex C++ program after only 7 weeks. Lecturers were impossible to find to ask for help and even when they were tracked down they always said that they were too busy to help or gave you 2 minutes (even in light of £3,000 course fees). So, be warned. These so called conversion courses demand more than GCSE Maths, which is the only requirement on top of any degree. In the end, I settled... Read review

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Advantages: Full resources for regional study
Disadvantages: It's in London!

...with UCL several years ago. Work on a new, dedicated building is underway and I believe this will be finished in 2005/6. All SSEES students have access to the SSEES library (more below) but also have access to the massive libraries of the University of London and University College London, all of which are very close to each other. It also has access to the UCL Students Union as well as the University of London Union. Firstly, the Library. SSEES has it's own library which is divided by country, and then by subject matter. At least 40% of the books are in foreign languages, mostly those of the region, which is particularly helpful when studying the language. By far the biggest collection is the Russian, which occupies an entire room in the current library. Quiet study areas are provided in most rooms, and a separate computer room is also... Read review

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