My Scottish Daughter can't go to a Scottish university!

[Pooh]

My Daughter has been applying for Scottish universities through clearing and despite the fact that the universities have the places and she has the grades they want, they cannot accept her because our fantastic Scottish government have put a cap on the number of Scottish students who can go to Scottish universities! The universities told her that she would have a place If she was English but they cannot offer one because she is Scottish.
It looks like she will have to wait a year or go to an English University but I am not sure if she is too late for the English clearing system?
As you can probably tell, I am very unhappy about this and she is so upset that she cannot even talk to me about it on the phone (she is in Australia at the moment).

[marshalla]

What happened to her choices in the regular round of applications ?

Key dates from UCAS for both Scotland and rUK : https://www.ucas.com/ucas/undergraduate/apply-and-...

[randlemarcus]

Has she offered to pay?

[Pooh]

marshalla said:

What happened to her choices in the regular round of applications ?

Key dates from UCAS for both Scotland and rUK : https://www.ucas.com/ucas/undergraduate/apply-and-...

She did not quite get the grades she needed to do the courses she wanted to do starting last summer so she did an HNC at the Open University, she did not get accepted on the courses she applied to this year because she did not have the results of the HNC, now she has the results and would be accepted onto the courses if they could accept her.
Thanks for the key dates.

[marshalla]

Pooh said:

She did not quite get the grades she needed to do the courses she wanted to do starting last summer so she did an HNC at the Open University, she did not get accepted on the courses she applied to this year because she did not have the results of the HNC, now she has the results and would be accepted onto the courses if they could accept her.
Thanks for the key dates.

That sounds odd - she should have had conditional offers rather than rejections if they were willing to accept her.

[Pooh]

marshalla said:

That sounds odd - she should have had conditional offers rather than rejections if they were willing to accept her.

I don't know all the details but she told me that they would not take the HNC into account until they had the results so they rejected her application based purely on her Highers.

[MethylatedSpirit]

Give university of the west of scotland a call. They always have spaces

What course is she looking to do?



Edit: I would recommend looking at HND courses too. If she decides it isn't for her, then she'll still have a good qualification after 1 year. Also it gets you into 2nd / 3rd year of university.

Edited by MethylatedSpirit on Monday 20th July 19:17

[MethylatedSpirit]

Pooh said:

marshalla said:

That sounds odd - she should have had conditional offers rather than rejections if they were willing to accept her.

I don't know all the details but she told me that they would not take the HNC into account until they had the results so they rejected her application based purely on her Highers.

Indeed, sounds odd. They wouldn't have rejected her straight away. They would of given a conditional offer of, for example "pass HNC with "xx" in graded unit". That is, of course if she got her application in on time

[Who me ?]

MethylatedSpirit said:

Edit: I would recommend looking at HND courses too. If she decides it isn't for her, then she'll still have a good qualification after 1 year. Also it gets you into 2nd / 3rd year of university.

Edited by MethylatedSpirit on Monday 20th July 19:17

With a decent HND, she might well get accepted ( with sponsorship) for an Msc .There's a few colleges around doing HND in two years ( should be a bit of a dwadle with HNC),and if she's got Higher maths ,then even the maths on some Electronics HND are not too far advanced . Indeed some of the maths on Electonics courses gain exemption ( or did for English Unis )for BEng courses for some years.

[Pooh]

Thanks for all the replies, she wants to do a biological science degree, I know that she has been applying for courses that include subjects like immunology and genetics so they are courses with fairly high entry requirements. I will have a chat with her today.

[exitwound]

Get her to consider a career in Xray or Medical Imaging..

Pays well, you can move around almost anywhere, they have a decent professional body, you can take it as far as you like from basic xraying to sonography or MRI/CT. Get married, have kids and come back and do it again..

Its a discipline that's secure, been around for a hundred years and is only going to progress. Lots of opportunities for the motivated.

I'm a bio-engineer chief, but I wouldn't recommend what I do (..we look after all kinds of medical equipment). The sciences include Cardiology, Audiology, Pharmacy, Dietetics etc.. They're ok, but Xray is way better.

My own daughter left school and hated hospitals, couldn't decide what to do and eventually to shut me up she agreed to a days "seeing practice" in our Xray. After a few hours, she didn't want to leave, ..great company, longish breaks, lots to do.

To cut a long story short, she got her degree (highers = 2X B's and one C for entry to diagnostic xray) and landed a job locally. She loved the random hours and the occasional 40 hour at £40per hour waiting list initiative on weekends and she's now (ten years later) a consultant radiographer/sonographer (no medical degree needed) on nhs pay band 8A (about £50k).

The Glasgow Caledonian ran the degree course. So check with them if she's interested and maybe get her in to a local hospital for a day to see what they do.

All the very best to her..

Edited by exitwound on Monday 24th August 16:46