Ergogirly, I've a hectic day but will try and start off some 'tips' later!
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I'm about to submit my first poster for a conference, and so this is my first experience of 'doing' posters. I wonder whether anyone would be prepared to comment on it if I email it them?? Please message personally if you'd be prepared to!
Thanks

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1. As per below, questions will be asked regarding why you didn't make a formal complaint sooner.....
2. I'm pretty sure your supervisors' choice of examiner is final. Whatsmore, very few supervisors would want the stigma of having you fail therefore it might be wise just to go with it.
3. Most universities require a minimum period of registration (2 years?) before you submit a thesis. Plus, you're not going to be able to submit work for a PhD at one institution, having been awarded an MPhil for the same work at your current one.

So I didn't get an interview for the teaching assistantship in my department which is paying the insanely low wages. I have to say, I'm a bit annoyed as they're only interviewing people who've taken the course and so are 'familiar with its structure'. I took a very similar course at another university, though have experience of (a different) Masters course at my uni.

Teaching positions seem impossibly hard to come by (which is why people will jump for next to no money) and as there is so little in my department it looks like I'm going to have to go without teaching experience. This is particularly riling when I've just finished a three day teaching course!

Sorry for ranting, I just wanted to get it off my chest!

There's always a risk before it's in the public domain, as I found out to my (naive) cost....
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AHRC can be early Sept for the open competition (or has been with the system in past years)... equally more people are likely to hear in early-mid August.

You need a line to Brian May.....

This is a UK forum, so although you might get some advice, many of us don't really understand what gpa scores mean, etc..., so you many struggle to get much help.

A number of my contacts tell me that despite the lack of graduate jobs, a candidate with a PhD would be hugely attractive, and I expect a postdoc equally so.... So your academic career wouldn't necessary be wasted....

Where in the S are you looking?

Have you booked your tickets? I know at the cinema we're going to most of the showings are sold out.....

Useful for what?
Useful for becoming a dental nurse? Useful for working for PwC? Useful for learning to drive a car?
Come on, no-one can help you unless you give us more contextual information.......

I have doubts as to how useful any course requiring background research will be for you....

I'm interested in knowing what people get paid for being a teaching assistant on a course in their department. My department offer what amounts to £225 for 20 weeks (two terms) teaching/administrative assistance on a masters course. They insist you sit in on the lectures (2 hours per week) + there's a two hour seminar you're expected to attend each week. Plus administrative stuff. They pay only for one hour of this. How ethical is that!?!

See someone outside your department.
That's what I'm doing.....
Has your University got a Dean of Students.???