How is the education in UK and Eire?Do the universities use the credit system?
I don’t know if you mean for admissions, or within the universities once you’ve started your degree…because within universities, the answer is yes. A full year of academic study in higher education is usually worth about 120 credits. It isn’t very relevant in most universities though, you don’t choose courses to make up a certain number of credits. The only classes you are required to take are those related to your degree; degree courses have modules everyone does, and then so many you can choose from a variety, so there’s no way you have to work out how many course credits you have etc. The only thing it is relevant for is if you have only partially completed a degree and decide to go back to it, or partially complete one and want to begin a related degree, or for the Open University, particularly where you get an Open Degree where you can choose a variety of subjects from different areas to make up the required number of credits (360?).
