Thanks SunburnedCactus, I thought that may be the case, I suppose I will need to ask them re my IT qualifications when I meet them which will hopefully be this weekend as long as the weather continues to improve.
I was hoping that there would be modules relating to networking and SQL etc as I would like to get through the degree as quickly as possible ideally and I would imagine the only thing which may come up computing-wise that I don't have any real experience or study-time in is programming. Although I did do a computing module as part my foundation degree, it only really included VB and I was never really too interested in it, plus I think most 2nd/3rd year computing/computer science students study C++/C# etc.
The financial assistance options available here seem really tempting too, especially as my Microsoft course have already cost quite a fair amount of money unfortunately. Do you know if you need to be based in the UK to apply for any sort of financial assistance with OU courses by any chance?