Originally Posted by bigsinky (Post 9167105)

ermmmm........................in a word no. did you miss the dry wit on purpose Les? my science degree has. Computing, software engineering and summat else i can't remember. liked it for about two years but as i was working 7 days a week and doing it part time at university 2 nights a week, i couldn't hack the pace. i asked the head tutor if i could take a year out, his reply was "your degree is already taking you 5 years part time, it won't be worth the paper it is written on if you take longer."

so i had a family to feed, bills to pay yada yada. took 3 years out, transferred all my CATS point to Open University. Finished and Honours degree in Science doing modules that actually interested me, Astronomy and Planetary Science, Space and Time, Cosmology. Unfortunatley these courses required a good grounding in maths, so yes you guess it i had to do hard sum courses as well (still don't do calculus that well).

All for what i hear you all ask. to get civil servant middle and senior managers be better managers. i swear to god sometimes it's like running a creche.