Going On To University

[Matthew kml]

Hi my name is mat I am currently on a apprentichip. I have heard that I can go on to uni after my apprentichip is finished with. Does anybody know what courses you can do there and what job would become of it? Also the pay rise in my salary what would that be? Thanks

 

[SPECIAL LOCATION]

Welcome to the forum........

Anybody can start university courses at any stage of life...

Providing you can pay the tuition fees and meet the entry requirements...

Universities have a plethora of subjects and courses that can be undertaken....

No job is guaranteed after ANY training course or qualification...

But higher education can put you in a stronger position when applying for all sorts of jobs...

Pay rise????

Could be a Pay drop.....

we have no idea what you are doing at the moment...  what you are being paid...

or what course of career you are considering...?

bit to many open-ended options I am afraid..

But I have tried my best from what has been given..

Guinness

 

[batty]

The other end of the scale it may limit the jobs as you may be over qualified.

 

[NozSpark]

Surely it would be better to look at what job you'd like and then take the appropriate qualification to help you get there???

 

[batty]

And if the jobs are there.

 

[Bruspark]

As said Universities will take anyone who meets their academic entrance requirements.  These are generally expressed in A level Grades for 3 A levels but many will consider other qualifications and the Open University will accept people without A levels for distance learning Degrees.   See www.ucas.com

Either way you will end up with a student loan of some sort (uni course fees are  £6 - 9k per year x 3 +accommodation books etc. ).  Theres plenty of unemployed graduates si you need a plan that included what you are going to do afterwards and how it pays.  My son (Good degree in business last year) for lack of anything else worked his first summer as a brickie's labourer and nobody suggested he be paid more . .   just got called Pythagoras got the pi&& taken mostly . .    

That said it's working out well now

 

[Evans Electric]

Not quite sure what you mean Mathew ,  do you mean to use the C&Gs  or whatever you attain  to give you a university entrance .?

Or do want to take a degree in electrical engineering or something  different ?

 

[Matthew kml]

I want to finish my apprentichip and then I will be a electrician, my boss is saying when I complete my apprenticeship I can do a HNC or something and then go onto uni with the qualification I have achieved which will be my nvq, I am sure he said something's about circuit designing do you know anything about that ? Thanks

 

[ProDave]

For what it's worth after my apprenticeship I carried on at college and did an HND thankfully all paid for by my employer at the time who put me through my apprenticeship in the first place.

That extra training eventually got me into designing and building industrial machinery so yes a significant pay rise over being "just" an electrician.

But life moves on and aged 40 we had a complete re think and moved 500 miles and I'm now back on the tools (have been for 11 years) as a self employed electrician again.  There's more to life than just earning lots of money, though having a good spell on a decent salary set us up well so I now only need to work part time.

 

[binky]

Qualifications are more about job satisfaction than money half the time. Plenty of hands on tradesmen can out earn a desk jockey with high qualifications, by dint of working lots of hours especially on large site jobs where overtime can be plentiful. The main joy of becoming desk-bound and designing is that you don't have to install someone elses' daft design.....

 

[Matthew kml]

Ok thanks for the comments

 

[Evans Electric]

And  a HNC in Electrical Engineering /installation or design is quite prestigeous without going to university.

If you think or realise that you are more suited to flying a desk than the manual side of Sparkdom  then I'd say go for all you can get .

Years ago a 5 - 6 yr apprenticship plus a basic C&Gs Electrician's Cert would set you up as a Sparky for the rest of your life.

But........  1000 yrs ago  an apprentice worked with us in contracting , good lad,  finished his time, and left for the local hospital group on mainenance , continued his studies and ended up as an electrical designer , project manager etc with the hospital board and when we became contractors in our own rite , we were quoting to him and working on his projects , to his designs without any problem .     You could tell by reading his spec,s and the way he set everything out that he had a good practical grounding .   (We knew that anyway as it was with the same firm as us)