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HNC in Business Studies
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Would it be worth it, job prospect-wise?
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I started on an HND but then converted it into a Ba, thats about the only way of making it worth the bother.
So whit be a BA then?
This all came about today in college, my tutor sat me down and basically said "You can do whatever you want, but you're a lazy shite and you coast through the course without any effort. You can't do that anymore". She then proceeded to slap me. Not really.
Anyway, she thought doing an HNC course would give me a goal that I need to work for, which should hopefully give me some much needed motivation, seeing as I have no definate idea (well, any idea) of what I want to do. So yeah...any ideas on what would be good, Business related?
Ahhh. So even taking my (hopefully, soon to be) Higher in Business Management a step further to an HNC, it wouldn't make much of a difference?
How was it?
What the hell is a Higher?
And whats the difference between a HNC and HND?
A Higher is the Scottish A Level. I think. Whatever you guys do after GCSEs.
And I dunno, I thought you had to have an HNC before you could do an HND.
No, you dont have to do the HNC first, I went right into the HND and with only one D at A-Level, for I am the King of Blag!
It was 'Bastarding English', get it right
So really, for it to make a difference, I'm gonna have to take it past the HND level?
Anyway, you can do something with the HND, though its definately worth while converting it into a Ba, like I did, that way you have a degree AND the HND all in the same time it would have taken to get the degree by itself.
I really wouldnt bother at all with the HNC if you can avoid it, an HND is worthless enough, let alone something even lower.
Avoid the world of work, its grim, and boring and rubbish.
*Ha!
Business orientated as in jobs or taking it further at Uni?
A HND for something like Business isn't that great to be honest. I think HNDs are more beneficial for someone who is planning on doing something vocational, like hairdressing, beauty therapy etc.
I have a friends who has a HND in Business and she is still serving chips in the local chippy.
Which is exactly why you should go on and get the degree, the HND isnt really worth a great deal, but if you can come out with a 2.1 or higher in virtually any degree it actually means something.