BSC Comp Sci, B.Com not a Professional degree? (standard bank)

[Viper25]

Standard bank dont consider any of these degrees Professional?

http://www.standardbank.co.ls/SBIC/Frontdoor_07_02/0,2493,9489051_9505896_0,00.html

I find that strange.

 

[Jamal]

Technically a profession is a job which requires professional registration with a regulatory body in order to practise, for example medicine, law and accounting.

 

[rorz0r]

They are probably referring to degrees where you would more than likely belong to some sort of professional body once done such as CA's, lawyers, doctors, etc.

 

[Picard]

Standard university degrees are academic qualifications.

BA, BCom, BSc etc.

 

[Boomstomp]

To be a "professional degree" the degree needs to be in the field of a profession, not merely a career.

Professions include engineers, lawyers, actuaries, doctors, etc. (hitmen...ninjas...)

Read up on what a profession is and you'll understand their distinctions betters.

 

[Picard]

To be a "professional degree" the degree needs to be in the field of a profession, not merely a career.

Professions include engineers, lawyers, actuaries, doctors, etc. (hitmen...ninjas...)

Read up on what a profession is and you'll understand their distinctions betters.

I think a law degree is also just an academic qualification. That is why you first need to do an apprenticeship and pass a board/bar examination.

 

[ponder]

To be a "professional degree" the degree needs to be in the field of a profession, not merely a career.

Professions include engineers, lawyers, actuaries, doctors, etc.

Read up on what a profession is and you'll understand their distinctions betters.

This ^^

 

[Viper25]

To be a "professional degree" the degree needs to be in the field of a profession, not merely a career.

Professions include engineers, lawyers, actuaries, doctors, etc. (hitmen...ninjas...)

Read up on what a profession is and you'll understand their distinctions betters.

From wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profession
"A profession is a vocation founded upon specialised educational training, the purpose of which is to supply disinterested counsel and service to others, for a direct and definite compensation, wholly apart from expectation of other business gain.[1]"
List of professions

■Accountants
■Actuaries
■Advocates
■Architects
■Doctors
■Dentists
■Engineers
■Financial analysts
■Lawyers
■Librarians
■Nurses
■Pilots
■Pharmacists
■Physicians
■Professors
■Psychologists
■Scientists

?

 

[Cicero]

Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_professional_degree

But generally a professional degree takes 4years minimum if I'm not mistaken? I may be completely wrong.

 

[Picard]

From wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profession
"A profession is a vocation founded upon specialised educational training, the purpose of which is to supply disinterested counsel and service to others, for a direct and definite compensation, wholly apart from expectation of other business gain.[1]"
List of professions

■Accountants
■Actuaries
■Advocates
■Architects
■Doctors
■Dentists
■Engineers
■Financial analysts
■Lawyers
■Librarians
■Nurses
■Pilots
■Pharmacists
■Physicians
■Professors
■Psychologists
■Scientists

?

Being a professor isn't a profession. It's a position in a department. They are still lecturers or researchers depending on where they work.

 

[Fox1]

There is a Software Engineering stream in the BSC Comp Sci degree.

 

[Viper25]

I was just curious.

Thanks for the opinions guys.
Guess its a very sketchy differentiation about what is and what isnt a profession.

Personally, I feel that standard bank needs to update their website.
An accountant not a profession, A qualified computer programmer not a profession, An economist
not a profession, A qualified teacher not a profession? I can go on and on..

 

[xumwun]

So what about the oldest profession?

 

[Pavan]

There is a Software Engineering stream in the BSC Comp Sci degree.

Buts its not an engineering qualification... Seems strange that the perceived 'professional' scope hasn't grown with the emergence of new types of professionals such as software architects/engineers/etc..

 

[Boomstomp]

So what about the oldest profession?

Prostitution ftw

 

[HavocXphere]

It is unfortunately a bit of an arbitrary distinction, especially since the word is used by +- everybody including the pirates in Somali waters.

I wonder if the oldest profession in the world qualifies for Standard Bank purposes... EDIT: damn someone beat me to it.

 

[Fox1]

Buts its not an engineering qualification... Seems strange that the perceived 'professional' scope hasn't grown with the emergence of new types of professionals such as software architects/engineers/etc..

You make a good point. In many cases, well maybe not in SA, Software Engineers with a BSC Comp Sci degree make more money than a "professional".

 

[Other Pineapple Smurf]

Standard bank dont consider any of these degrees Professional?

http://www.standardbank.co.ls/SBIC/Frontdoor_07_02/0,2493,9489051_9505896_0,00.html

I find that strange.

Its all a w@@nk anyway. Look at me, I got a Prestige Bank account, whhooppiieeee!!!! Its like guys with Phds who insist on being addressed as Doctors all the time.

My one bud has a Phd and dropped his title after he got asked for the umpteenth time on a flight if he could assist a sick passenger ... his doctorate is in Physics not medicine.

 

[Other Pineapple Smurf]

Prostitution ftw

And you don't need a Uni Degree to do it either

 

[Viper25]

Its all a w@@nk anyway. Look at me, I got a Prestige Bank account, whhooppiieeee!!!! Its like guys with Phds who insist on being addressed as Doctors all the time.

My one bud has a Phd and dropped his title after he got asked for the umpteenth time on a flight if he could assist a sick passenger ... his doctorate is in Physics not medicine.

Yup, I know, Prestige bank account not for me.
I dont even bank with standard W4nk anyways.
Was just browsing the site and came across that bit.

I still find it funny how some people pay all that amount of money in extra bank fees for a different coloured card
so that they can look all important and cool when at the tills at pick and pay.