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[winterbadger]

I've been informally notified that I've been accepted for the MSc programme and should be getting the formal acceptance (and the first of many bills :-) shortly.

:-)

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[rolypolypony.livejournal.com]

HUZZAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[reasdream.livejournal.com]

Congrats!

[kathygnome.livejournal.com]

That's great congratulations!

[maureenkspeller.livejournal.com]

Excellent. Does that mean you can ditch the other lot?

[tysolna]

Congratulations! :D

[winterbadger]

Sadly, no. I need the other. Partly because I'm already halfway through it and will be done faster, partly because it will provide me with industry credentials if, a couple of years from now, I find myself back in the US and need to take up my current type of work again.

It's sometimes tempting to take the Tier 2 student visa track, move to the UK and finish the postgraduate work I want to do there, and get the post-study worker (PSW) Tier 1 extension. I could start that almsot any time; I don't need a master's to get the Tier 2 visa--I can use it to *get* the master's.

But the time spent under Tier 2 and the PSW don't count towards settlement, whereas time spent under regular Tier 1 does. So if I wait a little longer, finish the ghastly AMU degree, and get the Tier 1 visa, I can start counting time towards settlement as soon as I arrive and start working up to 40 hours a week if I choose right away. And the latter will be important, as either route I have to qualify for an extension after three years or go back to the US, which will mean earning a fair bit of income.

[winterbadger]

Thanks! :-)

[winterbadger]

GOAT! :-)

[winterbadger]

Thank you! :-)

[winterbadger]

Thanks!

Conga Rats!

[wcg.livejournal.com]

[rolypolypony.livejournal.com]

YES!!

Re: Conga Rats!

[winterbadger]

Oh my! :-)

[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

Yay, excellent!! :)

[pisica.livejournal.com]

Yay!!!

[peaceful-fox.livejournal.com]

This is wonderful news! :-D

[schizokitty.livejournal.com]

YAYZ!!!

How wonderful! Good on ya!

[ticktockmary.livejournal.com]

YEA YOU!!

[ban-leodhasach.livejournal.com]

Yeah!! Congratulations!!

[silme.livejournal.com]

Is this for uni in Scotland? So, when are you moving over here? :) Yay!!!

[winterbadger]

1. Yes, it is. It's a program run out of Perth College's Centre for Interpretation Studies.

2. I'm starting off doing it remotely online, since their program is designed that way (a lot of the UHI programs are, to make it easier to reach out all over the Highlands and Islands). Hopefully I'll be moving in 2011, by which time I will have completed the AMU MA and completed most of the UHI MSc in Interpretation.

The current plan is to do a PG Dip in archeology through UHI January to September 2011, on the ground in Orkney, then start their MA in History program in September when it opens for business. By that time, with several postgraduate degrees under my belt, maybe I'll be palatable to someone like the U of Glasgow or U of Edinburgh and might even look to do a doctoral program. Though with the support I'll have gotten from UHI at that point, it might be nice to stick with them if they have achieved the authority to grant research degrees.

The goal is to have a range of skills and background that would fit me for a second career working in history, whether in museums, historic sites, archaeology, research, or elsewhere.