This is not Kansas

[nmg]

Today is another UCAS day, so in order to give myself a treat before that starts, I'm looking at postgraduate applications. I'm currently assessing an application from a Chinese student who has provided a full transcript of his degrees. This transcript includes such wonderfully named courses as:

• Dialectics of Nature
• Theory and Practice of Scientific Socialism
• Review of Chinese Traditional Culture
• Military Theory

Comments

[swisstone.livejournal.com]

Entirely off the record, my experience with Chinese students would suggest that you should under-rate their qualifications. A student with an M.A., for instance, may only be up to what we would consider B.A. standard.

It may work differently in the sciences, of course.

UCAS days

[autopaginator.livejournal.com]

Do you know if spare enthusiastic studenty people are needed on these days? If I wouldn't scare people off, I'd love to help, the ucas day was crucial for me to pick here.

bizarrely enough

[autopaginator.livejournal.com]

my other influences were
. a chap on a linux audio mailing list had a soton.ac.uk address
. totl.net (found through the urban sports (bus-tipping) page)