One of my school friends from a very ordinary working-class background who rose through a brilliant career to a professorship had to spend a large part of the first year of degree courses in electronics teaching his students the mathematics they needed to be able to cope with the course, because the comprehensive education system failed to build on the aptitude of today's youngsters.
The writing intensive course enrolled 40 engineering students in their third or fourth year of degree completion.
Another Sorbonne student, in the third year of a degree in modern literature, the university described her as "the most generous and amusing of friends".
I concentrated on Victorian and Shakespearean literature in the third year of my degree at the University of Leeds, and it was a toss up - I knew I was passionate about both and wanted to do a master's.
At the time I decided to apply for my work placement, I had reached the third year of my degree at the University of Nottingham and I was still unsure about my career path after graduation.
Despite holding down a job as an ambulance driver and being in the third year of his degree, David still made time to pitch and write this blog for us - and we're thrilled that he did!
Pooja Kawa is studying for a master's in world history at Kings College London My previous university was very Eurocentric – there wasn't any non-European history until the third year of my degree.
This was a core course, and all students were required to complete the course in the second or third year of their degree.
When I was in the third year of my degree (B.Sc., biochemistry), I wasn't sure that research was where I wanted to be in the long term.
Mr Pocock had been flying to Australia to begin a professional placement and study at the University of Western Australia as part of the third year of his degree course.
Students commence their clinical training in a hospital setting during the third year of the degree.
