• Question: what are qualifications

    Asked by diviatasha to Cesar, Emily, Jamie, Kate, Philippa on 14 Jun 2011.
    • Photo: Philippa Demonte

      Philippa Demonte answered on 14 Jun 2011:

      @diviatasha ‘Qualifications’ just means ‘what you studied’ and the level that you studied at. For example, by the time you have finished school, your qualifications will include GCSEs and possibly A’levels. For all of us scientists, our qualifications include some kind of university degree, for example a Bachelor of Science (BSc). The next level up is Masters, and then PhD where you really just focus on one area of science and study it in detail.

      You can also have non-academic qualifications. For example, if someone says that they are a qualified bus driver, that means that they have had to take and pass some kind of test as proof that they know how to drive the bus on roads safely.

      I hope that makes sense to you. Let us know if it doesn’t.

      I hope that makes sense.

    • Photo: Jamie Gallagher

      Jamie Gallagher answered on 14 Jun 2011:

      Do you want to know our qualifications are?
      Well mine are scottish at first but I have
      8 standard grades (like GCSEs)
      6 highers (like a lower AS-level I think…)
      2 Advanced highers (like A level)
      Bachalor of Science with honours in Chemical physics
      and currently doing a PhD

    • Photo: Kate Clancy

      Kate Clancy answered on 14 Jun 2011:

      As an American, I don’t know anything of these GCSEs and stuff — maybe you can tell me!

      In terms of my qualifications like what Philippa and Jamie have said, I have:

      A bachelor of arts with honors in Biological Anthropology and Women’s Studies from Harvard.

      A masters of philosophy in Anthropology from Yale.

      A PhD in Anthropology from Yale.

      Those are both American universities, but you’ve probably heard of them… 😉

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