Education Important decision time

There we go. Much less complicated.

You could always add - "you can take a 4 year Marconi Apprenticeship, and come out the other end as a seasoned drinker Radar Technician."

School can get stuffed - those were the best days of my life!

 

Bournemouths good, loads of modern stuff, and the beach is 5 minutes from the halls of residence.

 

Yeah, Gods own Country an' all, but, Hull? I mean. c'mon. Hull?

 

Hull is ****, its a horrible place which i wouldnt inflict on anyone.

bournemouth has a far livelier club scene, loads of university water sports clubs (i scuba dive and surf). Its worth travelling to do it.

 

I live literally 2 minutes away from Kent Uni and both my parents work there. It is a damn good university, however I'm sorry I don't know what the individual departments for what you want to study are like (I could probably ask if you're really keen though). As for the city, it does have a fair amount of chavs hanging around but they are normally all bark no bite. Canterbury now has 2 official universities and countless schools/colleges so the student population here is huge. Unfortunately there aren't many decent night clubs if that's your thing... there are however more pubs per person/per square mile than anywhere else in the UK(can never remember which one it is and might not be true any more).

I have family who live in Hull and have to admit it really isn't the nicest of places, got rated worst place in the UK not long ago and seems to flood a lot recently. I know a friend who went to Hull and I think she enjoyed her time there, academically I don't think it's all that bad, far from it. (again I don't know specific departments)

Let me know if you want to know more about Canterbury/Kent Uni I'm sure I can be of some help

 

That's not really how it works at all, they give you a sample, you process it, you aren't the guys going out in the field, you're the guys in the labs doing repetitive tasks and spinning bottles in centrifuges. I know a few people who do it, they say it's no where near as flashy as it's made out to be, it's much like any other lab where you have to determine what a certain chemical is. You're not always limited to a career in forensics with a degree in it, one of my friends did a forensics degree but now works in a vetinary hospital testing blood samples.

If you do enjoy stuff like titration and mass spec analysing and think you can handle doing it 9-5 for 5 days a week then it's definitley a good thing to go for.

Although it would be a good idea to ask, a regular Chemistry degree should be more than good enough to get into a forensics lab, so you can have a bit more choice with degrees. I would also say you should definitely consider a year in industry, all my housemates did it and they're glad they did.

1) It gets you experience so gives you something on your CV over what the thousands of other graduates have
2) You get to have a break from uni and test out a career path to see if you enjoy it
3) Monies, my gf got over 15k for her year which isn't bad for an undergrad job

 

yeah, a year in industry is definitely something I was looking into, also, the career prospects from a Forensics degree, aren't just forensic science.
The Bournemouth course (Forensic Science and Crime Scene Science) is more the CSI type of thing.