How is the education in UK and Eire?Do the universities use the credit system?

Question

Do the british universities work with the credit system???For exemplo...You have 300 credits,each credit has the worth of 20 hours...

Answer 1

I don't know if you mean for admissions, or within the universities once you've started your degree...because within universities, the answer is yes.

A full year of academic study in higher education is usually worth about 120 credits.

It isn't very relevant in most universities though, you don't choose courses to make up a certain number of credits. The only classes you are required to take are those related to your degree; degree courses have modules everyone does, and then so many you can choose from a variety, so there's no way you have to work out how many course credits you have etc.

The only thing it is relevant for is if you have only partially completed a degree and decide to go back to it, or partially complete one and want to begin a related degree, or for the Open University, particularly where you get an Open Degree where you can choose a variety of subjects from different areas to make up the required number of credits (360?).

Answer 2

No, they don't work like that at all. Universities judge your application on several things (I'm talking about the UK because I'm not sure about Eire) including the results of your A levels (exams taken over two years, usually people do three or four subjects), your personal statement convincing the uni why they should accept you, comments from teachers/tutors etc. and sometimes, depending on the university and course, an interview. Those are really the main things that applications are judged on.

I thought you meant as in applying to uni, like credits in high school in the US...sorry if I misunderstood.