Decided on going against uni, once and for all, I am always tempted to apply every cycle, but I was speaking to my advisor yesterday and when I said my long term goals are to get a 40 hour job (didn't tell him about the course as I was sorta of umming and ahhing anyway) he kinda shook his head and smiled wryly, my history is not great when at uni, I'm much better now but still nowhere near "well", plus 3 years is a long time, I might change my focus, I might lose motivation, etc I could, if I wanted, do an AS or something in the subject, which would be a year as opposed to three. There's other options.