How Educated Are You?

[Cannot think of a name]

I have an AA in Music a BA in Film & Digital Media a Graduate Certificate in Playwrighting (single year graduate level program).

[Forsher]

Does the army mos I had count as technical qualification?

Tell me more about it. What was it in? What is an mos? And what do you mean had?

Third-year university student (two majors, so out of 5-6). Planning on continuing all the way through postdoc in ecology/entomology.

By year five/six if you're not completely over university you're an outlier.

This is not criticizing either type of school this is more pointing out the premise of the poll is flawed.

That is the entire question the OP asks you to consider.

The poll itself is only concerned with qualifications. Note that it has a different question to the thread title's question.

I went to technical college after high school and got my NCEA Level 6 Diplomas in Information Technology and Computer Hardware, and a Level 5 Diploma in Computer Servicing. Pretty easy stuff but you have to get the piece of paper that says you can do the job.

For anyone who doesn't know our quirky system, level 6 the equivalent of 3 years post-high school.

I put a graph in the OP to help people with this.

Well, I mean, it'd help people familiar with the EQF most but it does have the relative placement of stuff.

[Yahaba]

I'm a kindergarten drop-out

[Cekoviu]

Third-year university student (two majors, so out of 5-6). Planning on continuing all the way through postdoc in ecology/entomology.

By year five/six if you're not completely over university you're an outlier.

I've been an academic outlier in a lot of ways throughout my life, so I wouldn't be surprised. Taking classes in two totally different majors and doing research on subjects that I have a strong passion for keep it interesting.

[Forsher]

By year five/six if you're not completely over university you're an outlier.

I've been an academic outlier in a lot of ways throughout my life, so I wouldn't be surprised. Taking classes in two totally different majors and doing research on subjects that I have a strong passion for keep it interesting.

Your postgraduate studies are unlikely to be like that. Formal Education is the march of specialisation. Even if you're able to do something that's technically multiple things... e.g. bioscience enterprise... that thing is still the only thing you're doing.

[Cekoviu]

I've been an academic outlier in a lot of ways throughout my life, so I wouldn't be surprised. Taking classes in two totally different majors and doing research on subjects that I have a strong passion for keep it interesting.

Your postgraduate studies are unlikely to be like that. Formal Education is the march of specialisation. Even if you're able to do something that's technically multiple things... e.g. bioscience enterprise... that thing is still the only thing you're doing.

I'm aware. I'm just saying that it will still be varied enough by that point that I'm very unlikely to lose interest.
edit: Whoops, just noticed that I'm being too vague. By "that point," I mean at the end of my 5-6 years of undergraduate studies.

[Neanderthaland]

I'm very highly educated. I have the best words.

[Geneviev]

Learning is something you did, not God.

......tbh I'll just understand it as they thank God for their fortune. It's not something to be debated actually

Th-there's education requirements?

Every Russian bot is dedicated to the job.

Hush you

For us non-native speakers, either formal or informal English language education is needed to be here unless we know nothing about what you guys speak about.

Knowing English is useful here. Maybe I should try to actually learn it eventually.

Seriously, it is helpful to understand what people are saying.

[Farnhamia]

I'm very highly educated. I have the best words.

The stability of your genius is ... yuge.

[Samudera Darussalam]

I'm Mexican ethnically.

I don't know Spanish.

So I feel weird with your comment.

Also good our world domination scheme is working.

Technically I don't count you as a non-native speaker, but go off I guess.

......tbh I'll just understand it as they thank God for their fortune. It's not something to be debated actually


Hush you

For us non-native speakers, either formal or informal English language education is needed to be here unless we know nothing about what you guys speak about.

Knowing English is useful here. Maybe I should try to actually learn it eventually.

Seriously, it is helpful to understand what people are saying.

I know, right?

[Farnhamia]

I'm Mexican ethnically.

I don't know Spanish.

So I feel weird with your comment.

Also good our world domination scheme is working.

Technically I don't count you as a non-native speaker, but go off I guess.

Knowing English is useful here. Maybe I should try to actually learn it eventually.

Seriously, it is helpful to understand what people are saying.

I know, right?

I find that if you just shout, people will understand you better. If other people want to be understood, they should learn English.

[Geneviev]

I'm Mexican ethnically.

I don't know Spanish.

So I feel weird with your comment.

Also good our world domination scheme is working.

Technically I don't count you as a non-native speaker, but go off I guess.

Knowing English is useful here. Maybe I should try to actually learn it eventually.

Seriously, it is helpful to understand what people are saying.

I know, right?

I tried having conversations with native English speakers before learning English and it was already a problem. It would be much worse on NSG.

[Farnhamia]

Technically I don't count you as a non-native speaker, but go off I guess.


I know, right?

I tried having conversations with native English speakers before learning English and it was already a problem. It would be much worse on NSG.

It would, indeed.

My father came to the US in 1920, speaking no English. I asked him once what the first words he learned were and he wouldn't tell me, they were not fit for a child's ears.

[Kowani]

It would, indeed.

My father came to the US in 1920, speaking no English. I asked him once what the first words he learned were and he wouldn't tell me, they were not fit for a child's ears.

How sad.

If you learn another language through immersion, profanity tends to be the first thing you pick up, along with the basic words.

[Farnhamia]

How sad.

If you learn another language through immersion, profanity tends to be the first thing you pick up, along with the basic words.

Exactly.

[Kernen]

Doctorate.

Considering a funsies masters, but I've no need for additional professional degrees, and I'm not sure I qualify for masters programs in the areas in which I am interested.

[Bear Stearns]

In addition to my formal education, I have a number of professional licenses.

[Xmara]

I'm currently double majoring in biology and criminal justice and minoring in chemistry. I want to be a forensic scientist.

[Rojava Free State]

How sad.

If you learn another language through immersion, profanity tends to be the first thing you pick up, along with the basic words.

I learned a few swear words in Filipino from my ex girlfriend

[Xmara]

If you learn another language through immersion, profanity tends to be the first thing you pick up, along with the basic words.

I learned a few swear words in Filipino from my ex girlfriend

I learned to swear in German from The Book Thief

[Katganistan]

It would, indeed.

My father came to the US in 1920, speaking no English. I asked him once what the first words he learned were and he wouldn't tell me, they were not fit for a child's ears.

How sad.

The first words you tend to learn in ANY language are the ones you can't use in polite company.

[Greed and Death]

I have a Juris Doctor which is technically a doctorate. You might want to change PHD to Doctorate to be more broad as there are several degrees that are doctorates but not PHDs.

[Treadwellia]

How sad.

The first words you tend to learn in ANY language are the ones you can't use in polite company.

Mama? Daddy?

The mind boggles.

[Samudera Darussalam]

The first words you tend to learn in ANY language are the ones you can't use in polite company.

Mama? Daddy?

The mind boggles.

We know that daddy has another meaning that is not so innocent right now.

[Forsher]

I have a Juris Doctor which is technically a doctorate. You might want to change PHD to Doctorate to be more broad as there are several degrees that are doctorates but not PHDs.

Sorry, but in NZ the JD is worth no more than a BA (or, rather, an LLB)... it falls at level seven. Don't worry... MDs are also only bachelor's.

That's fascinating... a MA from, say, Harvard or even MIT is worth less than an MA from AUT if we take that literally. The former is worth no more than my PGDip (level 8 both) whereas the latter is a level 9 qualification. I suppose one could always appeal.