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Hi and Looking for advice.

Hi,

Looking for advice.

Recently looking for a new job it became very apparent that my the qualifications on my CV are bad. While I have much experience I don't have A levels ( just O levels , yeah I'm mature :smile: ). While I managed to get back into work I wanted to correct this for future searches ( it seems most places now automatically filter on qualifications ).

I want to start with AS Pure Maths, AS Physics and AS Photography and then AS next year in other subjects while doing A2 in Pure Maths and Physics ( I'm a programmer ).

I called around local colleges but I'm to late this year and enroll for next September on the next enrollment dates.

So I'm looking at distance learning as one of the local colleges said this is my best option , I tried this many years ago with another course and frankly they were awful. It had phone tutor support but frankly he couldn't careless and basically made you feel unwelcome if you called.

Looking around the net for these distance learning companies and bloody eck there's hundreds of em. How is the situation theses days with distance learning ?, basically they all seem more expensive than local colleges but I'm will to pay for the right one.

Any Advice would be most welcome.

Thanks
Most of distance learning is online, they'll send you textbooks, work sheets and dvd's and stuff like that. You'll write up work and send it off to them, they'll mark it, give feedback, everything like that. You can usually skype tutors and they're very helpful and never act like you're bothering them!! :smile:

You could look at doing the open university, you don't need any formal qualifications to do a degree with them.
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Thanks for the quick reply,

Yes was pretty much the same back then ( except skype, that wouldn't work over 56k dial up :smile: ) , Should like you had experience of this ? any particular course providers you could recommend ( or even avoid :smile: )

I may look at OU at a later date, but to start off I want to build up a broad range of A levels first before committing to such a long time of study ( Part Time ).

Thanks Again
http://www.icslearn.co.uk/qualifications/a-levels.aspx

ICS Learning comes up quite a lot, I've not done A levels online, but I looked about doing them.
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Thanks, funny enough just got off a live chat with them (not very inspiring chat lol ) - also the courses are quite expensive compared to the local college and don't actually just do AS and A2 separate pricing but only the full A Levels.

But that seems to be the thing with distance learning :/

Cheers
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After looking at reviews and this site I'm going wait until the next enrollment date than doing the Distance Learning route, as DL is just self studying in the meantime
I going to self study for the AS in maths and Physics.

So for maths I'm going for Edexcel ( purely for it seems the most popular )

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Edexcel-AS-Level-Modular-Mathematics/dp/0435519107/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1383584803&sr=1-3&keywords=A+Level+Mathematics+for+Edexcel

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Edexcel-AS-Level-Modular-Mathematics/dp/0435519115/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1383584803&sr=1-4&keywords=A+Level+Mathematics+for+Edexcel

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Edexcel-Level-Modular-Mathematics-Mechanics/dp/0435519166/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1383584937&sr=1-1&keywords=A+Level+Mathematics+for+Edexcel+m1

and past papers

But for the physics I'm not sure which course books to get ?

Thanks :smile:

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