A Levels Eductional Details

True Friend Seeker wrote:

My friends,
my daughter has completed O levels recently, she is interested in designing field and want to do A levels with the designing subjects.
i need help for the information including the names of schools in which designing subject is studied for A levels.

regards.

What in God's name is "designing field" ??

Please refer to A-Levels as GCE and O'Level (Ordinary Level) as GCSE; so people can understand.

As far as my knowledge goes, there wasn't a provision of "designing subjects" in GCEs.

You have to be specific, if your daughter wants to design space shuttles, houses, chromosomes or fabrics ?

salman,
designing field means the area not fields where farmers work....

sorry i think you could not understand what i requested, suggestion for you to stay away from the topics without wasting yours and others timings.

have nice day. bye.

I stand by what I said, I am willing to stand back now and let thousands of other posters try to answer your question.

when you do get the answer you are looking for, please do come back and enrich this thread.

best regards

salman108 wrote:

I stand by what I said, I am willing to stand back now and let thousands of other posters try to answer your question.

when you do get the answer you are looking for, please do come back and enrich this thread.

best regards

Salman, you are *much* too short-tempered for somebody with only 65 posts   Chill out, my friend!  When people are making me nuts here, I try to just move on and let somebody else deal with it

Alliecat wrote:

salman108 wrote:

I stand by what I said, I am willing to stand back now and let thousands of other posters try to answer your question.

when you do get the answer you are looking for, please do come back and enrich this thread.

best regards

Salman, you are *much* too short-tempered for somebody with only 65 posts   Chill out, my friend!  When people are making me nuts here, I try to just move on and let somebody else deal with it

66 and counting..

Alliecat wrote:

salman108 wrote:

I stand by what I said, I am willing to stand back now and let thousands of other posters try to answer your question.

when you do get the answer you are looking for, please do come back and enrich this thread.

best regards

Salman, you are *much* too short-tempered for somebody with only 65 posts   Chill out, my friend!  When people are making me nuts here, I try to just move on and let somebody else deal with it

Agreed !

I am going to do just that hence forth.

Resident mockery had claimed me !

best regards

True Friend Seeker wrote:

i need help for the information including the names of schools in which designing subject is studied for A levels.

Pak Int School English Section Sulaymania (PISE)
and
Middle East Int. School

among the first to check with. You may like to see this from British school: http://www.bisr.com.sa/curriculum/KS5-1.html

And here is the list to take along: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ad … l_subjects

TheLegendLeads wrote:

True Friend Seeker wrote:

i need help for the information including the names of schools in which designing subject is studied for A levels.

Pak Int School English Section Sulaymania (PISE)
and
Middle East Int. School

among the first to check with. You may like to see this from British school: http://www.bisr.com.sa/curriculum/KS5-1.html

And here is the list to take along: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ad … l_subjects

Good show!

thanks.

salman108 wrote:

What in God's name is "designing field" ??

Please refer to A-Levels as GCE and O'Level (Ordinary Level) as GCSE; so people can understand.

As far as my knowledge goes, there wasn't a provision of "designing subjects" in GCEs.

You have to be specific, if your daughter wants to design space shuttles, houses, chromosomes or fabrics ?

Sorry dude, but you are so wrong and off base, it is ridiculous how you could be so cocky when you don't know what you are talking about.

Yes, I know this is 2 months old, but couldn't let this slide.

Never heard of the field called as "design"?  You can do bachelor's and master's degrees in it, even.  Only mistake OP made was calling it "designing", but even then, for those in the know, it is obvious what she meant.  Designing space shuttles has a separate name, and so do designing houses, chromosomes, or fabrics, so that was ludicrous of you to say.  "Design" is a field unto itself, look it up to see what it entails.

Second, you are completely wrong about the names of the courses.  Both A-level and O-level are part of GCE, and in fact, their full names are "GCE A-level" and "GCE O-level".  GCE stands for "General Certificate of Education", so GCE does not mean A-levels.  Furthermore, saying that O-levels are the same as GCSE is categorically false.  The British O-levels were replaced by the GCSE (General Certificate of Secondary Education), but O-Levels are still taught in some countries, because they are slightly more rigorous than the GCSE subjects.  Finally, why would you even ask her to refer to .... as ....?  Anybody who has children studying in the British curriculum (and many who don't) knows what A-levels and O-levels are.  In fact, no one refers to A-levels as GCE in conversation.  I have done and taught A-levels, and have been involved with British school education for decades, and never heard it.  As for GCSE, many people still refer to it as O-levels, and the OP's daughter might actually have done O-levels rather than the GCSE.

Lastly, like most people, you did A-levels (if you did them) or know people who did A-levels in the traditional subjects such as Math, Biology, Business, English, etc.  So why would you think there isn't an A-level in Design?  Did you know that A-levels are offered in at least a 100 subjects, including in--just to name a few unknown ones--Portuguese Literature, Leisure Studies, Law, Engineering, and Music Technology?

So, next time someone asks anything to do with British secondary education, please stay away.

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As for the OP, I know this is late, but most schools offer A-levels in the traditional secondary school subjects.  Anybody who wants to do a subject not offered by the school can do it as a private candidate.  That would mean studying on their own.  In case of Design, though, you would also need access to tools and materials, so I don't think it would be possible to do it in this country, unless the school happens to have an art and design workshop, or a woodworking workshop, etc, which is unlikely.

Any updates about what your daughter decided to study?

Lastly, like most people, you did A-levels (if you did them) or know people who did A-levels in the traditional subjects such as [i]Math, Biology, Business, English, etc.  So why would you think there isn't an A-level in Design?  Did you know that A-levels are offered in at least a 100 subjects, including in--just to name a few unknown ones--Portuguese Literature, Leisure Studies, Law, Engineering, and Music Technology?

So, next time someone asks anything to do with British secondary education, please stay away.

Say what about being cocky ?

I might have been incorrect with the semantics GCE/GCSE ... it's been about 19 years ! but I am very sure about what I said. I am going to break it down for you now.

Designing is only part of the process. Should some one be interested in designing chromosomes would imply a tendency to study biology at A-Levels.

however some one interested in designing a space shuttle (thus an engineer) would take up mathematics, physics, chemistry.

Some one interested in designing buildings / cities , would also be an engineer.

One would study Commerce, accounting if one leans towards financial markets.

Catching the drift ?

Point being, there is a bachelor's degree following A levels.
It is there for a reason.

Secondly, should someone post on an expat forum about their child's future without being heedful of their child's aspiration / tendency is just not pardonable. If OP was half as interested in getting informed she might have filled in the details maybe even qualified "designing".