Personal statement for PGCE application - thoughts
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gaijingirl
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ooh good luck - I'm still in touch with Julie who left your place to do a PGCE (and is doing brilliantly) just after I left your place (but did my PGCE later). Maybe it's a natural progression route from there...
chainsaw cat
Tea. Biccies. Happy now?
I just remembered that despite using this thread as a vehicle for cheap and unfunny jokes, my soon-to-be-ex just got on a PGCE with a form that was 50% my work.
So perhaps I should have been a bit more helpful and that.
My advice on any application - any - is to just lie a bit.
So perhaps I should have been a bit more helpful and that.
My advice on any application - any - is to just lie a bit.
I think it might be - I've been driven round the bend by my current boss but the advantage is that hating my job has given me the impetus to find a one I might actually like now
Secondary English Spanglechick - would apply to the North East unis as I don't want to get in any debt doing this. Yes, I may be Going Home....but in the interim I'm on the hunt for teaching assistant work from November on if you have any tips
Secondary English Spanglechick - would apply to the North East unis as I don't want to get in any debt doing this. Yes, I may be Going Home....but in the interim I'm on the hunt for teaching assistant work from November on if you have any tips
gaijingirl
Well-Known Member
I think it might be - I've been driven round the bend by my current boss but the advantage is that hating my job has given me the impetus to find a one I might actually like now
Secondary English Spanglechick - would apply to the North East unis as I don't want to get in any debt doing this. Yes, I may be Going Home....but in the interim I'm on the hunt for teaching assistant work from November on if you have any tips
Damn - I hoped you'd complete the set and say Goldsmiths...
I know that Julie didn't regret it - she got a job in a really good school not so far from here, bought a really nice flat in Brixton and probably earns good money now! You'd be FAB I reckon.
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
I think it might be - I've been driven round the bend by my current boss but the advantage is that hating my job has given me the impetus to find a one I might actually like now
Secondary English Spanglechick - would apply to the North East unis as I don't want to get in any debt doing this. Yes, I may be Going Home....but in the interim I'm on the hunt for teaching assistant work from November on if you have any tips
i'll mention it to our head of english tomorrow. not sure how it works, as performing arts aren't important enough to get LSAs.
Shippou-Sensei
4:1:2.5
my aunt said i should apply for goldsmiths...
only my lazyness saved me
only my lazyness saved me
bouncer_the_dog
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Are you applying for clearing now or autumn 2010 ?
Shippou-Sensei
4:1:2.5
well i was hopefull to get on this year when i asked about it last year they said they take on people till quite late (they only reallyt start in oct)
if i don't make it i'll re apply for a jan start as i kinda want to get it out of the way
if i don't make it i'll re apply for a jan start as i kinda want to get it out of the way
bouncer_the_dog
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Hmm. I applied for one .. and got in.. and am starting this month. and have many thread worthy sagas before its even begun to relate but haven't bothered. However I think as long as you can muster a pages worth of yadda yadda yadda you should be ok.. i'd just c&p the amended post from earlier
Treacle Toes
Time
Youth work is great experience...detail any specific activities you did and achievements etc. Highlight the things you most enjoyed and what you feel your strengths are.
Shippou-Sensei
4:1:2.5
all i do is stit around throwing things at dole scum
Treacle Toes
Time
You make it sound better than that
It's hard writing about strengths rutita! I have trouble pinning them down....
Okay...so tell me...what are your strengths?
Think of your youth work experience...what did you do well, what went well?
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
bump!
useful info here, but if anyone else feels they want to add anything, please go for it!
useful info here, but if anyone else feels they want to add anything, please go for it!
friedaweed
Me and me girl named Jane
Oiy I went to goldsmiths
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
goldsmiths want 2:1 or above 
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
yes! I may apply. I am only allowed to apply for 2 and deadline is 1 December, so need to decide NOWHave you considered Greenwich?
Shippou-Sensei
4:1:2.5
well my application worked out fine.
i do think it's probably not hugly important as you go for an interview and do more tests later on.
i do think it's probably not hugly important as you go for an interview and do more tests later on.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
they could turn you down at application stage though.
Shippou-Sensei
4:1:2.5
I'd think you have to have fucked up spectacularly to manage that.
of course i might be wrong about knowing how many applicants they have but i think if you have a reasonable education/work history and show a little passion in the personal statement you should be ok
there is probably less pressure for places now there is less in the way of grants and bursarys
of course i might be wrong about knowing how many applicants they have but i think if you have a reasonable education/work history and show a little passion in the personal statement you should be ok
there is probably less pressure for places now there is less in the way of grants and bursarys
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
what about the institute?goldsmiths want 2:1 or above
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
what institute?
goldenecitrone
post tenebras lux
Institute of Education, Russell Square.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
oh righty. yep, they accept desmonds
goldenecitrone
post tenebras lux
Great place to study, too. And a top location.
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