University of London Distance Education

Nosborne, agilham, and little fauss are right. Finish the law degree first.

You don't know what the future holds or what your preferences will be as opportunities arise. The better your credentials are, the greater your flexibility will be in taking advantage of opportunities that come your way.

marilynd

 

It seems that this policy of 'new' certificate wordings has been started not long before. When is the policy effective?

If one lost the certificate, can one get the replacement? If yes, would it be in 'old' certificate wordings or 'new' certificate wordings?

 

When I asked for any thoughts I never expected to get so many unanimous ones! Thank you all very much for your input, which I greatly value.

I have alot of thinking to do, and not much time to do it. UCR used to be a very good school, ranked highly amongst all of the Universities in Latin America, yet for the last 15 years it has fallen into inadequate hands, that have placed politics ahead of excellence in academics. Yet I cannot deny that Iam very close to the end. The suggestion of going straight for an MBA is very good, and believe me... it is an idea to be taken seriosuly.

Once again thank you all very much for your time and thoughts.

By the way, if anyone would like to take a very good course in Spanish as a Second Language, the UCR School of Modern Languages has excellent programs that have proven to be very effective for hundreds of english speakers. Im not so sure if they offer DL but perhaps someone might be able to spare a semester and come over here, please let me know if youre interested.

 

A correction to my earlier post

I was mistaken in my earlier post when I stated that the Ductch Civil Law system follows the German.

Even in an historic context, this statement is obviously false.

The Dutch were among the earliest commercial/merchantile people in Europe to revive the study of the Code of Justinian. With certain French scholars of the period, the Dutch developed their Civil Law long before the Germans were in any position to need such a thing.

My conclusion remains the same: the Ductch and French, and therefore Spanish, versions of the Civil Law are very different one from the other. However, the Germans probably looked to the Dutch rather than the other way around.

My apologies to any Dutch lawyers or legal scholars if I caused justified outrage!

 

Hi Brendan, thanks a lot for your answer. Yes, that clarifies everything. I expected those diplomas to be slightly diferent from those given to on campus students, and they actually are. My wife is an LSE graduate and her diploma is somewhat different (different wording, her department at the LSE is also included and the signature of the Diretor back then - Anthony Giddens). I wonder if it would be ethically acceptable to write in one´s cv to have studied an MBA from, say, Imperial College or it would be more appropriate to say simply University of London, external degree. Well, I guess that´s up to each person.


Cordial greetings and thanks again.