When looking to take a masters in the UK and then having my work transfer back to the US for a Phd, I was asked how many credit hours did I work in my subject. Basically, if the course you are looking only has say 20 credit hours the schools you are looking at for your phd might not accept that as enough work to justify a masters.
You're best best is to call the schools you are looking at for a phd and ask how they treat masters from the UK.
The way I see it (and have been told by many people in my field) is get your degrees where you wish to be working. If you want to teach or whatever in the US, stick with the US system.
It is much more difficult, because the UK has strict requirements for work visas. Basically, you need to be able to do something no one in the EU can, or not enough people in the EU can. Sometimes that applies to academics, but not usually junior ones. My feeling is that it can also take much longer to get the equivalent of a tenure-track position in the EU generally; they have nowhere near as many universities, basically. In the general case it isn't necessarily more difficult, but with the added problem of needing a work visa it may well be.
Mallyns is right, I do have UK citizenship (British birth certificate and passport), but your point (tisiphone)about the simple difference in numbers of institutions that could conceivably hire an academic is totally true. Good point, I hadn't thought about it that way.
Ah yeah, I missed that. I'm way too tired to be on the internet tonight! And yes, the academic job market is not so good actually even if you do have citizenship.
You're best best is to call the schools you are looking at for a phd and ask how they treat masters from the UK.
The way I see it (and have been told by many people in my field) is get your degrees where you wish to be working. If you want to teach or whatever in the US, stick with the US system.
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