Post Sec Education

XRS · Post by **XRS** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 8:17 pm

how will Airlines view a diploma in Pharmacy Tech. as Post Sec education?

Juggs · Post by **Juggs** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 8:24 pm

I believe it would count just like any other diploma. Normally there is a distinction made between a diploma and a degree. Sometime there is a breakdown between diploma and aviation diploma, but other than that. Your diploma in Pharmaceutical Technology counts the same as a diploma in Advanced Basket Weaving involving Runge-Kutta integration methods.

duplicate2 · Post by **duplicate2** » Mon Nov 07, 2005 3:38 am

Juggs wrote:... Runge-Kutta integration methods.

Just reading that still makes me feel a little ill. I had a prof that actually had a Runge-Kutta variation named after him.

Cool Rythms! · Post by **Cool Rythms!** » Mon Nov 07, 2005 9:48 pm

It's still post-secondary education XRS, I wouldn't worry about it.

JBI · Post by **JBI** » Mon Nov 07, 2005 10:12 pm

Juggs · Post by **Juggs** » Mon Nov 07, 2005 10:47 pm

I believe the way that the education component on the AC paperwork worked something like this. Each category was rated on a 0-4 scale.

0-High school education
1-College Diploma
2-Aviation College Diploma
3-Degree
4-RMC Degree or Higher education.

I am not 100% certain if that breakdown is the case but an aviation college diploma was worth more than just a college diploma.

Luscombe · Post by **Luscombe** » Tue Nov 08, 2005 11:38 am

It's funny, but I have an RMC degree. I really haven't noticed any difference in the treatment in the industry.

Mind you, I have been asked what RMC was during interviews outside of the aviation industry. Another of my favourites was "Oh, you must have enjoyed your summers as a Fort Henry Guard then?" and my favourite was "And why didn't you have a career in the RCMP then?".

I don't know if it's poor marketing on behalf of RMC, but it seems much of the outside world doesn't even know what the place is.

OK, my ranting is complete... back to our regularily scheduled program...

Hedley · Post by **Hedley** » Tue Nov 08, 2005 12:01 pm

Being born in the right year is worth more points than a Phd in Aeronautical Engineering.

Airlines are a very cyclical industry - either they're hiring, or firing.

If they're firing, they won't care if you're a professor at MIT.

If they're hiring, as long as you've got an ATP and some kerosene-burning experience, you're in, even if you dropped out of high school.

monkeyspankmasterflex · Tue Nov 08, 2005 2:19 pm

4-RMC Degree or Higher education.

An RMC degree = a degree, no more. I've only ever seen it regarded as more in the military, and even then it was by RMC grads.

just another pilot · Post by **just another pilot** » Tue Nov 08, 2005 3:09 pm

What do you get for both aviation diploma and degree?

BTD · Post by **BTD** » Tue Nov 08, 2005 3:13 pm

Big student loans, unless you got lots of $$$

mellow_pilot · Post by **mellow_pilot** » Tue Nov 08, 2005 3:15 pm

just another pilot wrote:What do you get for both aviation diploma and degree?

Dissapointment

BTD · Post by **BTD** » Tue Nov 08, 2005 3:22 pm

Hey M.P. you sound like your not enjoying yourself out west?

mellow_pilot · Post by **mellow_pilot** » Tue Nov 08, 2005 3:27 pm

It's just that doing everything twice is starting to get to me!! Why do these institutions not have a fast lane where I can just say, "Ya, I know all that." and they take my word for it?

Hell, they're making me take a grade 10 level english course