Msc in computing

[AtW]

In fact I was looking a friends' case and the barrister's hourly rate was cheaper than the all the solicitors' and the majority of the legal executives in the firm she was using. (But that comes of using solicitors in London. )

I think Barristers must be engaged by solicitors and can't be approached directly by clients? That would explain why their rates lower - the whole system is literally a legal monopoly

[threaded]

I think Barristers must be engaged by solicitors and can't be approached directly by clients? That would explain why their rates lower - the whole system is literally a legal monopoly

IIRC Baristers don't have to (so much) pay tax, so they can be cheaper.

Just like the Bobs etc. in IT.

HTH

[minestrone]

In some countries there are engineer corporations (I know the italian Albo degli Ingegneri for example).

The example you mentioned is not relevant. Of course it can only apply for experience relevant to specific professions.

Doctors in medicine need a degree to start practicsing (I don't believe that this is good for the profession in general, but it certainly helps to limit the number of people in the profession). This is not needed in IT and many other engineering fields. If tomorrow they start liberalising doctors I'd certainly be cured by somebody who had cured patients for 10 years rather than somebody with a nice polished piece of paper on the wall only and no experience.

Aye, fantastic mate, a medical degree is not really needed to be a doctor.

What fckin nursery did you do your degree in?

The idiots you find on the internet, I tell yee.

[Francko]

Aye, fantastic mate, a medical degree is not really needed to be a doctor.

What fckin nursery did you do your degree in?

The idiots you find on the internet, I tell yee.

Strangely but not too many years ago it was like this in some countries.

http://elane.stanford.edu/wilson/htm...ap4-sect8.html

"As already mentioned it was commonplace at the beginning of the nineteenth century in America to practice medicine with no other training than apprenticeships such as Goforth completed in New York before the riot, and as Drake completed under Goforth's preceptorship in 1804."

I am not against formal examinations for a profession. What I am against is the need for a formalised path and academia while there are certainly many more ways to learn a job (though ok medicine is a bit of a bad example since hospitals and universities are close to one another and there is no path for learning outside them nowadays).

Your minestrone is boiling, cool it down or the vegetables start becoming sour.