

Law at Glassgow or Strathclyde.
#1
Posted 26 February 2007 - 02:52 PM
Any help is greatly appreciated!!
#2
Posted 26 February 2007 - 04:57 PM
#3
Posted 26 February 2007 - 07:19 PM
CC100 is on that course as it happens. From what i hear Glasgow university law course isnt much fun there was a huge drop out rate in first years this year apparently. Have heard people on the train moaning about law at Glasgow aswell.
If i am not here i am somewhere else
#4
Posted 26 February 2007 - 08:07 PM
I'd give the same advice for any course. Go along to the departmental open days, have a look around, chat to the staff and other students if they are around. They are both good universities and different people like different places. Sometimes it's as simple as whether they want to be out in the West End or if they prefer the city centre.
Once you've been to both univeristies, checked out the full campus etc, then you will have a good "feel" for the place. Go where you think you will be happy and enjoy your time at university.
If you are still stuck then check out the unions and go wherever you think would be most fun

#5
Posted 26 February 2007 - 08:56 PM
#6
Posted 26 February 2007 - 10:29 PM

I think you need to really see for yourself where you think you will be happiest but advice from people like Lindsay should be valuable since she was at Glasgow last year and is at Strathclyde this year. Donna is however doing the opposite so there is two people you can ask for a start
If i am not here i am somewhere else
#7
Posted 26 February 2007 - 10:48 PM
Glasgow: boring guy in tweed suit looking at me like I was a bit of dirt from his shoe. A real sense of: "we are law students and we're soooo much better than everyone else."
Strathclyde: friendly staff and really grounded students willing to help you out and share their experience at law school with you.
I know that I'm biased, but I think my law school is fab (Strathclyde if you hadn't guessed!)!! The staff are really accessible and I understand at Glasgow they're harder to get hold of than the Queen. We also have the "Law Clinic", which is the only one in Scotland. It's a great asset to the uni because it lets you help people out, whilst you're getting hands on experience of legal practice before you hit the diploma. (See http://www.law.strat.../law_clinic.htm)
What Micheal says may well be right, but at the end of the day, job offers should come down to academic merit and not what uni you went to. There's no way you should pander to snobbery when deciding where you'll be happiest studying for at least 3 years. And if everybody's so against Strathclyde (which happens to be one of the top 10 law schools in the UK), why are Paul McBryde, Tony Kelly and the Lord Advocate all Strathy graduates?!
So yeh, that's my case m'lord!
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#8
Posted 27 February 2007 - 07:03 AM
#9
Posted 27 February 2007 - 04:10 PM
Go to whatever uni you prefer. It's not just about the course, it's about other facilities provided, the people, the union etcetc. Choosing Law at Glasgow or Strathclyde is 6 and half a dozen if you ask me.
Everyone's opinion is different. CC100 seems to like Law at Strathclyde, whereas my friend (who dropped out) hated it. I hated law at Glasgow, but loads of other people love it.
As a university, I much prefer strathclyde. But, hey, everyone's bias.
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#10
Posted 27 February 2007 - 06:32 PM
At the end of the day go by the open days and if there are any visitors days go and ask questions. See if you can see yourself there or not. And if you do decide it's not for you, dropping out and starting again somewhere else is never usually a problem!
#11
Posted 27 February 2007 - 06:35 PM

eh no, he's an arts & social sciences person! we want scientists running the union - we get forgotten about, in fact, there's only one candidate thats even bothered to come near any of our lectures!
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#12
Posted 27 February 2007 - 06:45 PM


Cows are magnificent,
Cows I call them "moos",
And sometimes silly folk,
They call my moos "coos".
#13
Posted 27 February 2007 - 11:02 PM
If i am not here i am somewhere else
#14
Posted 01 March 2007 - 06:16 PM
I wish I voted for the Allison, he is a nice bloke. He seemed much more passionate than Gurjit. Too late!

Cows are magnificent,
Cows I call them "moos",
And sometimes silly folk,
They call my moos "coos".
#15
Posted 08 March 2007 - 01:38 PM

The other presidential candidate shook my hand! And asked me my name.
So naturally I said, "Betty!"
Errr. Well, I was at Glasgow last year and I hated it with a burning passion. It was so snobby it was unreal. However, I was doing Arts. And the Arts faculty and Glasgow is a bit on the snobby side. Mainly because it's over-run by folk who couldn't get into Oxford or Cambridge or St Andrew's. My grandpa's friend's granddaughter also recently dropped out of Glasgow, she was doing languages.
I'm at Strathclyde now and I think it's super fun.
My experience last year was also probably affected by the fact that I was really ill.
My advice is to go check out the unis, find out as much about the course as you can and so what you feel is right. It doesn't matter if one uni has a better reputation than the other, if you're not going to enjoy it, it isn't worth the grief.
#16
Posted 08 March 2007 - 06:45 PM

The other presidential candidate shook my hand! And asked me my name.
So naturally I said, "Betty!"
Errr. Well, I was at Glasgow last year and I hated it with a burning passion. It was so snobby it was unreal. However, I was doing Arts. And the Arts faculty and Glasgow is a bit on the snobby side. Mainly because it's over-run by folk who couldn't get into Oxford or Cambridge or St Andrew's. My grandpa's friend's granddaughter also recently dropped out of Glasgow, she was doing languages.
I'm at Strathclyde now and I think it's super fun.
My experience last year was also probably affected by the fact that I was really ill.
My advice is to go check out the unis, find out as much about the course as you can and so what you feel is right. It doesn't matter if one uni has a better reputation than the other, if you're not going to enjoy it, it isn't worth the grief.
I think someone should check their grammar, =P
But Lindsay is quite right, check out all the unis first.
#17
Posted 08 March 2007 - 08:33 PM

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