Access to HE 2012-2013

I think it depends which one you do, At my college we can either do part time over 2 years or full time in one year which i know is full days, best to ring up your college and ask

My access course is full-time (15.5 hours per week) so hopefully I'll be able to stay on JSA throughout college.

Wow, my whining about working and studying seems a little silly when compared to what you managed to balance. Thanks, it's reassuring to know that it's achevieable.

I'll be working nights so my 20 hours will only be Thursday and Friday. Oh and congrats on the uni place!

On the note of working alongside the course, does anyone know how many hours a week the course will take up? If it's more than 16 then I will lose JSA which definitely puts more pressure on me to get a job before the course starts D: I'm guessing it probably will be though.

I've just finished an Access Course in Carlisle and our hours were: 9.30-2.30p.m 2 days a week and 9.30-3.30p.m 1 day a week. That covered 3 subjects and an hour doing Toolbox/Study skills.I Started in the September and finished in the May x Hope this helps x Amanda xx

Which is what I am doing, mine is 15 hours as well. Hope its over 3 days and not on a Friday. Volunteering part time on Fri/Sat.

You did Access in Carlisle? I'm starting on Sept 10th!

Which modules did you take and what are you studying in Uni?

Hi x yes I've just finished in May. I done Psychology, English Language and Quantitive Methods (Maths). I'm going to Cumbria and I'm studying Social Work, I start on the 17th x Eventually I want to work in Child Protection x What are you wanting to do? A lot of my peers got a place at the uni of their choice but one or two didn't and it was rubbish for them x

Are you on the rock and roll (dole) too? I've heard some job centres can be funny about it, even if the course you are on is under 16 hours. I'll enquire next week when I go to sign-on and see what they say.

they were dead against people working and doing the access, cause the work load builds up so much. i basically gave up work to do this, its part of my 5 year plan.
If you spek to anyone whose done it before , they will tell you how full on it gets. well i on here any one doing it in colchester institute.

Waaaahh i'm so stressed turns out it's very unlikely I'll be getting into uni to do what i want.
Ive spent the last 5 years trying to decide what i wanna do,i did 6th form, college 3 times, the open uni and only recently realised what i'm meant/want to do is what i decided at 6 years old to become a veterniary nurse :/ Thing is ive been doing some researching and theres only 7 universities that do those courses in the UK(of which are the top top universities; Edinburgh,glasgow,bristol etc) and places are very scarce as in, 1500 applicants and only 100 places. I also need at least 10 weeks volunteering animal experience of which i have nada(currently looking) and also need high GCSE'S of which mine are only so so. Only got 1 D of which is in maths but should be redoing that in the access course but B's and C's in everything else where theyre looking for A*and A's BOOOOOOOOOO

Get distinctions in all your modules, a little bit of luck, a little bit of praying and BOOM you should be in your course. Try anyway, you have come this far only best thing to do is try and apply for it.

they were dead against people working and doing the access, cause the work load builds up so much. i basically gave up work to do this, its part of my 5 year plan.
If you spek to anyone whose done it before , they will tell you how full on it gets. well i on here any one doing it in colchester institute.

Yeah, On the rock and roll (dole ). One of my advisor said that they send it to the decision makers but as long as its usually under 16 hours then you can do it. Just don't mention that its full time hehe, on that note I am also on the (work programme?) and I asked one of my advisor and he said the same thing, if its under 16 and full time should be fine.

After this year you will end up being on student finance for 3-4 years. Far away from the dole, don't let the job centre stop you going forward in life.

Worst case scenario, tell them the benefits that in the long run you are working to get yourself off the dole in say 9 months you will be signed off instead of being on there for a whilst (which is a whilst trying to look for a job nowadays). They usually pay for security badges, forklift licenses etc why can't they let us do access? So stupid.

Hope you have read between the lines of my post