PVR

[back end o' the bus]

PVR 3 yrs ago

Guys 'n gals...for wot its worth, I jumped ship to the RAAF after 23 yrs and you have a financial year window to move across within, the desky was extremely helpful with ensuring that any 9/12 mth out time was reduced to the 3/6 mth window that I needed. The Sqn were very gd at CO, Exec level....just depends on personalities I guess.....

[Melchett01]

I concur. I was offered (and accepted) a years' Fellowship vice ACSC and advised by the Desk Officer that it had the same weighting. Unfortunately it didn't, and even though I had an email to that effect, the system still regarded me as a 'Mainstream' officer, 'cos I hadn't gone to Swindon Polytech. Mind you, I also got a proper Masters' from a prestigeous university.

Not having done ACSC, I might be barking up the wrong tree, but from the briefing we had during ICSC, it appeared that ACSC is little more than accreditation of prior learning. Effectively, what you are learning as a senior military staff officer is translated into an academic equivalent, and then with a few extra KCL modules added on, you get your MA. Hence the reason why ACSC attendance does not mean you will automatically come out the other end with an MA.

From that perspective, I would have thought that a degree in something relevant from a prestigious university (I think KCL is somewhere in the 50s in the world university rankings, I guess that counts as prestigious) would be more relevant than military theory in the outside world. Then again, I would say that as I already have a postgrad MSc without going to Swindon Poly

[obnoxio f*ckwit]

I was about 36 on Buccs when I was advised at blue letter time for SQNLDR (yes, was late as I joined at 30 from RAAF!!). Now we know that promotion is 3 yrs return of service, so there goes the 38/16

You were almost exactly the same as me (apart from the Bucc bit, no FJ for me!), but i didn't lose my 38/16 point, it just slipped to the right. I stagged on for the extra year and left anyway, but with the bigger pension.

[Whenurhappy]

KCL is not in the top 10 global list of universities. Cambridge is...

This refers: BBC News - World 'reputation' rankings: US universities in lead

Moreover I have not been impressed with the intellectual rigour of some of the so-called Masters' convocated by KCL, and this has been confirmed by colleagues who have done both the Cantab MPhil (International Relations)and the MA at Shriv.

[Climebear]

Off Topic

In the Times list, KCL is 56th in the world; 12th in Europe; 8th in the UK.

Anywone know why the individual colleges of the University of London are listed seperately but not the individual Oxbridge colleges?

[radar101]

London colleges

The University of London is a federal university with all the colleges being self-governing / autonomous. I don't know about Oxbridge.


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