I am currently applying to Universities to do my PGCE or if in Scotland my PGDE. All my life I have dreamed of becoming an English Teacher for secondary year. As many know this process is a big struggle and it is very competative to get a place.
However, I feel that sometimes there is discrimination in some of the choices.
This time last year I had an interview for the University of Aberdeen. I was very excited at the thought of possibly going to that partciular University. I have always wanted to go to a Scottish University to do my teaching.
This has now changed, if i get in to a Scottish University fair enough, but now I'd rather go to an English University for my degree. This is all because of a comment made by the Aberdeen.
They told me in my feedback form, the reason I wasn't getting a place wasn't because of my lack of English knowledge or how my teaching skills maybe, or how well I'd done my work experience. But all because I didn't know the system and because I'd never been in the system.
Is it fair? It doesn't matter where you're from you should still have a fair chance or be given a fair chance. I had done my research of the system beforehand and still I am told this.
Should this be the same over the border, if a Scottish student wants a place in the English School system, should they have same response?
I understand that the Scottish system is hard to understand, but it still isn't fair to reject someone on that reason alone. And for that reason I have lost my faith in their descisons.
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